Expected Outcome:
Activities under this topic will contribute to EU climate and nature protection policies and specifically respond to the Mission Soil specific objective 2 "Conserve and increase soil organic carbon stocks ", thereby supporting the implementation of the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Regulation [1] with respect to the inclusion of wetland restoration activities.
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Improved access to knowledge and data on forest peatlands, their management, their role in carbon cycles and societal/economic/environmental values, contributing to the upscaling of carbon farming schemes and their certification under the proposed EU carbon removal certification framework [2].
- Management measures and innovative solutions for sustainable land and forest management are in place at the test locations to maintain and further enhance the status of forest peatlands.
- Forest managers and policymakers in EU Member States and Associated Coun can make better informed decisions on the basis of the assessment of the added value of peatland restoration approaches under different scenarios (different types of forests on peat soils) through enhanced monitoring of their benefits and trade-offs in terms of GHG emissions and removals, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, ecosystem services, and biodiversity.
Peatlands
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