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Bog Day is celebrated around the world every year on the fourth Sunday in July.

This annual event, in celebration of bogs, fens, swamps & marshes is an opportunity to raise awareness of peatlands – the benefits they provide, the threats they face and the ways we can all help protect them.

World Wetlands Day is celebrated each year on 2 February to raise awareness about wetlands. This day also marks the anniversary of the Convention on Wetlands, which was adopted as an international treaty in 1971.

The IGC 2024 will continue the tradition of previous congresses in recognising that our world faces many common natural and societal challenges that can only be dealt with through global action, understanding and sharing. Geography as a discipline, its skills, attributes and the geographic mindset has much to offer other disciplines, policymakers, officials, politicians, and our wider communities. The theme of our congress is ‘Celebrating a World of Difference’ and we are strongly focused through our academic and fieldwork programme on supporting intercultural awareness and understanding; promoting intellectual diversity as a strength; bringing geographic research and thinking beyond the congress walls; and grappling with the complex interconnections between people, place and the natural world. In an increasingly contested, fragmented and troubled world, celebrating difference as a strength and acknowledging our common humanity is essential.

Functional, healthy peatlands are the most space-efficient, long-term and concentrated carbon stores and sinks in our planet’s biosphere.

With the launch of the “Investing in Peatlands” publication, organisations working at the front line of restoration come together to make the case for landscape-level investment into peatlands. A scale that can provide multiple co-benefits including cultural, enhance biodiversity, reduce flood risks and improve water quality. From an economic perspective, they can boost local business development, provide access to biodiversity and water credits, and offer financial returns from carbon markets. Join us to explore the opportunities for investment and hear from pilot projects and landscapes showcasing how to enable this.

SPEAKERS:
Paul Chatterton, Founder | Landscape Finance Lab
Roopal Kanabar, Strategic Finance Advisor | Landscape Finance Lab
Graham Neville, Head of Operations North | NatureScot
Dr Guaduneth Chico, Action Site Coordinator WaterLANDS | LIFE IP Wild Atlantic Nature – National Parks and Wildlife Services
Dr Franziska Tanneberger, Director | Greifswald Mire Centre

ROUNDTABLE GUESTS:
Emily Hickson, Director of Business & Investors | Climate Catalyst
Shane Mc Guinness, Coordinator | WaterLANDS
Dianna Kopansky, Global Peatlands Initiative Coordinator | United Nations Environment Programme
Stephen Hart, Senior Loan Officer | European Investment Bank
Sam Lampert, Investment Director | Mirova

FACILITATOR
Rolf Hogan, Programme Manager | Peatland Finance Ireland and WaterLANDs

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vkm0uXsOQ2qs9vFZ89weqw#/registration

A hybrid workshop organised as part of the ESA WorldPeatland project to engage with users dealing with peatland mapping and monitoring and to capture their requirements.
There will be two separate sessions accommodating online attendees from the western and eastern hemisphere. Both online and in-person delegates will be able to join one or both sessions if they prefer.

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:00 - Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:00 GMT
Tue, 30 Jan 2024 9:00 - Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:00 GMT

Please indicate your preferred session as part on the registration process.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/esa-worldpeatland-user-engagement-and-requirements-workshop-tickets-795205149007

Join expert academics and practitioners to learn more about trees, peat and their interactions in landscape recovery. 

Join the National Trust on Tuesday 30 January 2024 to hear provocations and perspectives from Richard Lindsay (University of East London), Lee Schofield (author Wild Fell) and a host of other speakers from organisations including Natural England, Borders Forest Trust, Woodland Trust and National Trust.  

Register here.