18/11/2025  Since 2022, MoorNet has been providing technical support as a research and development project for the implementation of the National Peatland Protection Strategy (Nationale Moorschutzstrategie) and networking amongst peatland protection stakeholders in Germany. With useful outcomes that are still publicly available:
The MoorNet project database provides information on projects, funding and institutions. New projects can be registered there using this form.

The MoorNet mailing list sends latest news on peatlands, and those interested can still register online.

The MoorNet final conference in mid-November 2025 demonstrated the wealth of expertise, commitment and experience within the German peatland conservation community. Over three days, more than 150 participants from administration, practice and science shared knowledge, exchanged experiences, discussed problems and debated solutions. An excursion to a rewetting project in Brandenburg completed the programme. Presentations and selected contributions from the conference will soon be published as videos at the MOORNet-Website – for anyone who would like to delve deeper into the content or review it.

15/11/2025  Trying to make maximum impact for peatlands at COP30 in Brazil with Franziska Tanneberger, co-director of the Greifswald Mire Centre, on the ground at these events:

17.11. Security from the Ground Up: Soils and the Foundations of Resilience
This high-level session will explore how land restoration, soil governance, and ecosystem recovery (e.g. peatland rewetting) can advance climate resilience, post-war reconstruction for example in Ukraine, and regional stability — building security from the ground up.
🗓️ Monday, 17th November 2025, 10:30-12:00 a.m. (local time in Belém), 14:30 (CET)
📍  Ukraine Pavilion
👉 More info: Security from the Ground Up: Soils and the Foundations of Resilience

17.11.: Mainstreaming NBS for climate resilience in EAC
The side event showcases how East Africa is advancing climate-resilient development through Nature-based Solutions—from large-scale landscape restoration to sustainable peatland management—while strengthening regional cooperation and highlighting pathways for partnership financing and policy integration.
📆 Monday, 17th November 2025, 11-12:30 (local time in Belém),15 (CET)
📍 EAC Pavilion C-72

17.11. The Peatland Breakthrough: From Evidence to Action
Together, we’ll explore how evidence-based action can accelerate peatland conservation, restoration and sustainable use as essential pathways for climate mitigation, biodiversity protection and resilient communities.
🗓️ Monday, 17th November 2025, 14:30–15:30 (local time in Belém), 18:30 (CET)
📍  Nature Hub Pavilion, Blue Zone
👉 Register: The Peatland Breakthrough: From Evidence to Action

17.11. Peatland Breakthrough
This event will explore how the Peatland Breakthrough is catalyzing global action, and uniting countries, communities, and companies to restore and protect one of the world’s most carbon-dense ecosystems: peatlands
📆 Monday, 17th November 2025, 18:30—20:00 (local time in Belém), 22:30 (CET)
📍 Side Event Room 1, Blue Zone
👉 Register: PEATLAND BREAKTHROUGH: A Global Call to Unlock the Power of Peatlands
💚 Livestreaming available for COP30 virtual-only registered participants

20.11.: Nature-based Climate Action as a Key Instrument for achieving Germany's Climate Target
The side event presents the recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Board for Germany’s Nature-based Climate Action (WBNK) for the further development of the Action Plan. The event will particularly focus on peatland restoration and rewetting on different continents.
🗓️ Thursday, 20th November 2025, 10:15-11:15 (local time in Belém) 2:15 p.m. (CET)
📍  German Pavilion
👉  More info: https://german-climate-pavilion.de/?pgm=124&nav=14&language=eng&tz=America%2FBelem

21.11.: Signing Joint Declaration between International Tropical Peatland Centre and Greifswald Mire Centre

🗓️ Friday, 21st November 2025, 10:15-11:15 (GMT-3)
📍  Indonesia Pavilion Open Stage, Blue Zone
👉  More info: https://www.tropicalpeatlands.org/event/signing-joint-declaration-between-itpc-and-greifswald-mire-centre-germany

21.11.: Integrating Peatland Restoration and FOLU within the Global Carbon Market Framework
Tropical peatlands play a critical role in global climate regulation as long-term carbon reservoirs. Nevertheless, their contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation is increasingly threatened by degradation, insufficient financial support, and uncertainties in emerging carbon market mechanisms.
🗓️ Friday, 21st November 2025, 15:50–16:20 (GMT-3)
📍  Indonesia Pavilion Main Stage, Blue Zone
👉  More info: https://www.tropicalpeatlands.org/event/integrating-peatland-restoration-and-folu-within-the-global-carbon-market-framework

All events at #COP30 📍Belém, Brazil (CET-4)

14/11/2025  From 8 to 17 June 2026, the Paludi Summer School will take place at the Thünen-Institute in Braunschweig and at the Greifswald Mire Centre. It is primarily aimed at PhD candidates and other early-career scientists involved in PaludiNetz projects. Remaining places will be allocated to applicants outside the PaludiNetz in a second selection process.

A central goal is to strengthen interdisciplinary exchange and to network participants both with each other and with experts from research and practice. The focus is on jointly developing and deepening knowledge about paludiculture. The programme is supplemented by practical tasks, interactive workshops and excursions to project sites, rounded off by a number of leisure activities that provide opportunities for exchange and networking. Each participant is asked to give a presentation on their own research topic – an opportunity to share ideas, receive feedback and learn from each other.

Registrations are open until 31 December 2025 via this form.

14/11/2025  A brand new eddy covariance tower has recently been installed on one of the pilot sites in the MOOSland project. It continuously records CO₂ and methane fluxes across the entire area, including causeways, ditches and peat mosses. Over the next eight years, scientists want to use it to measure how climate-friendly a peat moss paludiculture is.

The ‘Eddy’ took a day and three people to set it up, plus a lot of preparatory work, of course, such as testing the equipment in the laboratory, laying power cables to the site and building a rudimentary platform out of planks. The tripod was built up within four hours on site. Then, electrical boxes and data loggers were attached to the tower. These are responsible for communication between the instruments, including CO₂ and methane sensors, a camera, a pressure gauge and a router for data transmission to the outside world. Each instrument has its own IP address for remote access. This not only enables the instruments to be accessed, but also controlled – a special feature of this Eddy tower that goes beyond the standard. The following day, only a little fine-tuning was needed to optimise the angles, distances and alignment of the sensors. Now the ‘Eddy’ is up and running, and the scientists expect to receive the first evaluations in about a month.

Why it matters: The collected data provides a reliable basis for policymakers, businesses and researchers to assess and optimise the climate impact of peat moss paludiculture.

Paludiculture in practice, young scientists, water and nutrient management – new calls for proposals will be issued in October.

10/11/2025  The Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (BMLEH) wants to further promote climate protection through peatland conservation and is intensifying its research funding. The three calls for funding address paludiculture management techniques, water and nutrient management, and young scientists.
Funding for ‘‘Research into innovative cultivation techniques for paludiculture“ is intended to support practical research with rapidly available technology and knowledge transfer in the field of land management and the extraction of renewable raw materials from paludiculture. The Ministry is offering young researchers up to five years of funding for the collection and modelling of data on rewetted moorland sites. Funding for „Water and nutrient management of paludiculture“ is intended to generate knowledge on the hydrology and nutrient supply of wet moors and paludiculture at the regional level.