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Challenges and options
John Couwenberg
Hans Joosten
Greifswald University
Are emission reductions from peatlands MRV-able
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Stocks & emissions
Current Carbon stock in peat soils:
~550 000 Mt C
Current emissions from drained peatlands:
>2000 Mt CO2 y-1
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Global CO2 emissions from drained peatlands
Drained area
(106 ha)
CO2
(ton ha-1 y-1)
Total CO2
(Mton y-1)
Drained peatlands in SE Asia 12 50 600
Peatland fires in SE Asia 400
Peatland agriculture outside SE Asia 30 25 750
Urbanisation, infrastructure 5 30 150
Peat extraction 30 1 60
Boreal peatland forestry 12 1 12
Temperate/tropical peatland forestry 3.5 30 105
Total 63 2077
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Mitigation management options
• Conservation of the C stock • Sequestration of C from the atmosphere• Substitution of fossil materials by biomass.
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Conservation management
Conserve existing peat C pools:• Prevent drainage• Reverse drainage by rewetting
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yearly emissions
time
Reducing the rate of deforestation(rate of reclamation of new areas)
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yearly emissions
time
Reducing the rate of peatland drainage(rate of reclamation of new areas)
Peatlands continue emiting for decades after drainage:Annual emissions are cumulative
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Conservation management
Rewetting is the only option to reduce emissions
Strategic rewetting of 30% (20 Mio ha) of the world’s drained peatlands could lead to an annual emission avoidance of almost 1000 Mtons CO2 per year.
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Sequestration management
• ~75% of peatlands are still pristine• accumulating new peat • removing & sequestering 200 Mtons CO2 y-1
strict protection
• rewet 20 Mio ha• restore peat accumulation in 10 Mio ha
additional removal ~10 Mtons CO2 y-1
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Substitution management
• replacing fossil resources by biomass from drained peatlands:
CO2 emitted > CO2 avoided
• biomass from wet peatlands orpaludiculture (= wet agriculture and forestry)
• implemented on 10 Mio ha of rewetted peatland substitution of 100 Mtons of CO2
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Peatland management
• avoiding peatland degradation and • actively restoring peatlands• results in significant climate benefits
quantify emission reductions
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Measure drained…
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… and (re-)wet(ted) situation...
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frequent, prolonged, intensive
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expensive, complex, time consuming
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Peenetal
Measure pilot sites, develop proxies for the rest
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Proxies: water level
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Good proxy for CO2 emissions:Example temperate Europe
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Proxies: water level
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Good proxy for CH4 emissions:Example temperate Europe
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Proxies: water levelGood proxy for CH4 emissions:
Boreal/tempEurope
SEAsia
At high water levelsdifferences due tovegetation
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Emissions strongly related to water level
Vegetation strongly related to water level
Use vegetation as indicator for emissions
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Proxies: vegetation
• developed for NE Germany• currently being verified, calibrated and updated
for major peatland rewetting projects in Belarus.
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Proxies: vegetation
Advantages of using vegetation • reflects longer-term water level conditions • reflects factors that determine GHG emissions
(nutrient availability, acidity, land use…),• itself determines GHG emissions
(quality of OM, aerenchyma mediated CH4)
• allows fine-scaled mapping (1:2,500 – 1:10,000)
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Proxies: vegetation
Disadvantage of using vegetation • slow reaction on environmental changes• necessity to calibrate for different climatic and
phytogeographical conditions.
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GESTs:
Greenhouse gas Emission Site Types
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GESTs with indicator species groups
GEST: moderately moist forbs & meadows
Vegetation forms:Urtica-Phragmites reedsAcidophilous Molinia meadowDianthus superbus-Molinia meadow…
Each with typical / differentiating species
Each GEST with GWP
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Proxies: subsidence
• loss of peatland height due to oxidation
• complication: consolidation, shrinkage
• promising especially in the tropics:subsidence based methodology being developed by the Australian-Indonesia Kalimantan Forests Carbon Partnership.
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Proxies: subsidence
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Oxidative componentderived from changesin bulk density andash content:
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Proxies: subsidence
• possible to measure using remote sensing and ground-truthing
• works well for losses from drained peatlands, but less for decrease in losses under rewetting (swelling)
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Monitoring emission reductionsfrom rewetting and conservation
• wide range of land use categories
• may require different approaches to– reduction of GHG emissions – monitoring these reductions
• land use may enhance GHG emissions(plowing, fertilization, tree removal)
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Monitoring emission reductionsfrom rewetting and conservation
Avoided emissions need clear baseline
• clear in case of rewetting
• proxy approach for avoided drainage– Note: peat depth determines duration of
possible emissions after drainage
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Monitoring emission reductionsfrom rewetting and conservation
• cost of monitoring is related to the desired precision of the GHG flux estimates.
• determined by market value of ‘carbon’
• assessing the GHG effect of peatland rewetting by comprehensive, direct flux measurements might currently cost in the order of magnitude of € 10 000 ha-1 y-1
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Monitoring by proxies
Monitoring GHG fluxes using water levels:
• data frequent in time, dense in space. field observations and automatic loggers.
• water level modelling based on weather data
• remote sensing not yet suited
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Monitoring by proxies
Monitoring GHG fluxes using Vegetation:
• easily mapped and monitored in the field
• monitoring by remote sensing has been tested successfully and is very promising, also in financial terms.
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Monitoring by proxies
Monitoring GHG fluxes using subsidence:
• easily monitored by field observations, but practically impossible over large areas when annual losses are high.
• In tropical peatlands (several cm y-1) the use of LiDAR looks very promising.
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Monitoring of proxies
• derivation of actual emissions from proxies open to improvement
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conservative estimates indicate that
reduced and avoided emissions
from peatland rewetting and conservation
can provide a major contribution to
climate change mitigation