Descriptions
Conserving and restoring Africa’s peatlands holds considerable potential as a natural solution to climate change. Currently this potential remains largely untapped. The Africa Peat program aims to open up this potential. As part of this program CIFOR is supporting Conservation International through the development of scientific knowledge and carbon accounting methodologies that are appropriate for African landscapes and identify priority peatlands in Africa where carbon finance can be deployed to support conservation and restoration activities.
More specifically, CIFOR carries out a desktop assessment of methodologies for peatland GHG emissions appraisal, a rapid appraisal for candidate peatlands sites in Africa, and lastly collect scientific data in the field for calibrating an existing verra methodology or informing a new methodology.
