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Ramsar Fact Sheet 8 Keep Peatlands wet for a better future
… cover only 3% of the Earth’s land surface, but store more carbon than all the world’s forests combined – if they are … features that make peatlands so important for long-term carbon storage. Drainage of peatlands also leads to loss of carbon …
Guidance for identifying and designating peatlands, wet grasslands, mangroves and coral reefs as Wetlands of International Importance
… to biological diversity, global water issues, global carbon retention relevant to climate change, and wetland … local and regional climates; h) capacity to sequester carbon from the atmosphere and store it for long periods of … importance than small areas for their hydrological, carbon storage and palaeoarchive values and because they incorporate …