As part of the International Tropical Peatland Centre (ITPC)’s role as a centre of excellence for tropical peatland research to support policy, and a collaborative platform for studying and preserving tropical peatland ecosystems, the centre hosts a knowledge portal.

The Peatland Knowledge Portal serves as a go-to place for collaboration and dissemination of information on peatlands. Information on the platform consists of projects, publications, datasets, and other related communications products resulting from peatlands research and projects. All of this information is open-access.

The platform will develop into an access point for finding and sharing information and knowledge on tropical peatlands all over the world, and provide a catalogue and repository to support research on peatlands in a global range of locations and contexts.

This session represents a starting point for a dynamic series of knowledge-sharing sessions on peatland research. The session will cover:

• challenges and opportunities for setting up a collaborative platform, including milestones;
• challenges and opportunities to align views from partners and interested parties; and
• how to gain the interest and commitment of project managers, donors, private companies, and NGOs working on peatlands to collaborate within ITPC networks.

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Welcome to Panelists and moderator

Master of ceremony

Welcome remarks

Speaker

Agus Justianto

Director General for Sustainable Forest Management, Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia

Talk show opening

Moderator

Michael Brady

Team Leader, Value Chains, Finance, & Investments, CIFOR-ICRAF

ITPC Knowledge Platform: Connecting knowledge and research to people

Speaker

Haruni Krisnawati

Senior Advisor to the Minister/ITPC Expert, Ministry of Forestry

Lesson learned from CIFOR: Approaches and data dynamics to produce peatland knowledge

Speaker

Daniel Murdiyarso

Principal Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF

Challenges and opportunities for setting up a global peatland collaborative platform

Speaker

Dianna Kopansky

Lead Coordinator, Global Peatland Initiative, UNEP

Synergies on tools and data for collaborative integration platform

Speaker

Hans Joosten

Secretary-General International Mire Conservation Group

Q&A

Moderator

Summary and issues for follow-up

End of session – Moderator