Intervention · Intervention

Peatland restoration

Ecosystem restoration that rewets and rehabilitates degraded peatlands to restore their water-regulation and buffering functions, reducing flood, drought and fire risk (with a co-benefit of avoided carbon emissions).

Definition source: Global Peatlands Initiative

Synonyms

peatland rewetting

Broader

Ecosystem restoration

Narrower

none

Relations

sequesters Carbon sink
applies-to Peatland
produces Carbon sequestered

Counts as adaptation

Intervention addresses a climate hazard, OR produces a qualifying outcome (adaptation-specific or hazard-conditioned), OR produces an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when done purely for productivity, market, or development with no hazard link and no hazard-referenced result.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

INT_069 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_069
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_069)