Assessing future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

The research synthesizes literature and expert elicitation to quantify drivers of change affecting peatland carbon stocks and highlights the critical gap in current climate modeling frameworks, which largely omit peatland ecosystems.

• Peatlands are projected to transition from being a carbon sink to a carbon source within the current century.
• Current climate projection tools, specifically the main Earth System Models and Integrated Assessment Models used for mitigation and impact studies, do not include peatland ecosystems.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2020). Assessing future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink. https://www.sei.org/publications/assessing-future-vulnerability-of-the-global-peatland-carbon-sink/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Assessing future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink. 2020. https://www.sei.org/publications/assessing-future-vulnerability-of-the-global-peatland-carbon-sink/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2020assessing, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Assessing future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2020}, month = dec, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/assessing-future-vulnerability-of-the-global-peatland-carbon-sink/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }