Full Report │ The Peatland Breakthrough Science-based Framework for Global Peatland Targets and Guiding Principles

The Peatland Breakthrough is a collaborative effort to mobilize action to conserve, rewet and restore, and enable the sustainable, wise use of the world’s peatlands in ways that maintain their essential functions to support climate goals, water security, biodiversity, and people’s livelihoods.

The Peatland Breakthrough provides a science-based framework with global targets and guiding principles developed through an inclusive and consultative process to ensure they are scientifically robust and widely accepted. It aims to upscale and accelerate action to support the conservation and restoration of peatlands, in order to reduce emissions, support removals, enhance resilience, and strengthen pathways aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement. As part of the 2030 Breakthrough Agenda launched at UNFCCC COP26, the Peatland Breakthrough sets clear 2030 goals to accelerate action this decade toward climate-resilient net-zero pathways.

It unites governments, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, land managers (e.g. farmers, foresters, or other rural land-dependent groups), landowners, businesses, researchers, investors, and civil society around shared global targets and guiding principles. By connecting diverse scientific expertise, Indigenous knowledge, community experience, and financial innovation, the PB ensures that decisions based on its recommendations are evidence-based, inclusive, and viable. It enables coordinated, landscape-scale action and complements existing international and sectoral policies, standards and commitments that already meet or exceed its targets and principles.

To read the information brief, offering a concise overview of the science-based framework, please visit here.

The Peatland Breakthrough is led by Wetlands International, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Greifswald Mire Centre, developed in close alignment with the Global Peatlands Initiative, and in collaboration with the High-Level Climate Champions Team and the Convention on Wetlands. Our growing list of partners includes: Landscape Finance Lab, the Global Environment Centre, RE-PEAT, and The Nature Conservancy