Carbon Connects

3% Of the world’s land surface is covered by peatlands, which are large concentrations of organic matter having accumulated over centuries. They store twice as much carbon as all of Earth’s standing forests. Europe contains 265,000 km2 of various peatland types and if dried out, will go from being a carbon sink to a massive, unstoppable carbon emitter. Carbon Connects (CConnnects) aims at reducing C02 emissions by 50% in agricultural peatlands where traditional practices have unnecessary high emissions. The project will promote an alternative practice of wet agriculture land use that reduces carbon by raising water levels, introducing new crops (eg. Cattail, reed), and isolating carbon in land outputs (biomass, building material). CConnnects will also develop financially viable business models by developing value chains and use blue and C-credit schemes to enable widespread implementation and scaling-up without public subsidies. Development will take place in  8 pilots in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Regional cases in the Netherlands are managed by Waterboard Aa en Maas, Waterboard De Dommel and Staatsbosbeheer.

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