What challenges does this group intend to tackle?

• Understand wetlands’ capacity to act as sink or source of GHG (particularly, CO2, CH4 and N2O) depending on their condition and land uses in the catchment
• Assess wetlands’ current and potential carbon and GHG profile to prove their role in climate mitigation

Why this is important ?

Land use, C-sequestration potential and global warming potential (GWP) mitigating/ generating capacity of wetlands on different climate (RCPs) scenarios have been assessed even at catchment level, but not generally linked to the possible effects of wetland restoration actions.

There is a need to overcome data gaps and to interlink and upscale the assessment of pressure levels on wetlands, then relating the conservation status and the result of restoration actions addressing these pressures and impacts with their capacity to store carbon (C) and mitigate GHG emissions.

Resources compiled by the community

Fundación Global Nature. (2024, September). Mediterranean wetlands and climate mitigation: Methodology for reducing and offsetting greenhouse gas emissions  LIFE Wetlands4Climate project.
– Linked resources: Dossier empresas. Proyecto de absorcion de CO2 en humedales. Marjal dels Moros – Fundación Global Nature.

IUCN (2021). Manual for the creation of Blue Carbon projects in Europe and the Mediterranean. Otero, M. (Ed)., 144 pages.  LIFE Blue Natura project

Gogo, S., & André, L. (2023). Measuring methods and integrated model to predict C-emissions and sequestration in natural peatland (INTERREG NWE Care-Peat). INTERREG NWE Care-Peat.

Bou Melhem, R., Jourdain, L., Gogo, S., Leroy, F., Jacotot, A., Moquet, J.-S., Laggoun-Défarge, F., & Guimbaud, C. (2025). Rewetting is not enough: Sphagnum transplants promote lowering of greenhouse-gas emissions in peatlands. Restoration Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.70224

Knowledge generated by this group

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