Briefings
Joseph Katenga, Forest adviser to the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development Credit: Kevin McElvaney/Greenpeace
Congo Basin
2024
Dummett, C., Langley, J.F., Emba, O., Bokungu, E. & the CongoPeat Consortium. 2024. People and Birds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Peatland Forests. 12 pages.
Global Peatlands Initiative. 2024. Congo Peatlands IKI Project mission to Congo launches a peatlands data campaign and research capacity building.
2023
CongoPeat Consortium. 2023. Value and Vulnerability of the Central Congo Basin Peatlands. 23 pages. [low res pdf] [high res pdf]
2022
Bola, P., Dargie, G., Georgiou, S., Girkin, N., Jenkins, S., Kanyama, J., Sciumbata M. (CongoPeat Early Career Researchers Group). 2022. Tropical peatlands of Central Africa. In: Geography Review, 36(2).
Ifo, S.A., Garcin, Y. 2022. Briefing on Past Drought Impacts on Peat Decomposition. In: Nature.
Lewis, S.L., Ewango, C., Crezee, B., Ifo, S.A. & the CongoPeat Consortium. 2022. Briefing on Protecting the Congo Peatlands for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation. 4 pages.
Lewis, S.L., Ewango, C., Crezee, B., Dargie, G.C. & the CongoPeat Consortium. 2022. UPDATED Briefing on Oil Exploration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, analyzing 27 auction blocks. 4 pages.
Lewis, S.L., Ewango, C., Crezee, B., Dargie, G.C. & the CongoPeat Consortium. 2022. Briefing on Oil Exploration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 4 pages.
Sonwa, D.J., Lewis, S.L., Ifo, S.A., Ewango, C., Mitchard, E.T.A., Dargie, G.C., Lawson, I.T., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Doumenge, C., Gond, V., Betbeder, J., Toham, A.K., Van Offelen, J., Kopansky, D., D’Annunzio, R., Monsembula, R., Nuutinen, M., Villegas, L., Milliken, K., Philippon, N., Bigot, S., Freeman, O.E., Bambuta, J.J., Jungers, Q., Román Cuesta, R.M. 2022. Les tourbières de la cuvette centrale du bassin du Congo : Réalités et perspectives. In: Eba’a Atyi, R, Hiol Hiol, F, Lescuyer, G, Mayaux, P, Defourny, P, Bayol, N, Saracco, F, Pokem, D, Sufo Kankeu, R, Nasi R. 2022. Les forêts du bassin du Congo : état des forêts 2021. [Online]. Bogor, Indonésie : CIFOR. pp.255-282.
2021
Lewis, S., Ewango, C.E.N., Ifo, S.A., Dargie, G.C. & the CongoPeat consortium. 2021. Protecting the Congo Basin Peatlands to Safeguard Climate and Biodiversity.
2018
Lewis, S. 2018. A plan to solve the mysteries of Congo’s vast tropical peatland. CarbonBrief. [Online]. 3 September. Available from: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-a-plan-to-solve-mysteries-of-congos-vast-tropical-peatland
2017
Lewis, S. 2017. Vast carbon store found under Congo swamp forest. CarbonBrief. [Online]. 13 January. Available from: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-vast-carbon-store-found-congo-swamp-forest
Miles, L., Ravilious, C., Garcia-Rangel, S., De Lamo, X., Dargie, G., Lewis, S. 2017. Carbon, biodiversity and land-use in the Central Congo Basin Peatlands. Cambridge: UNEP-WCMC.
Tropical Peatlands
2018
Thornton, S.A. 2018. Tropical Peatlands: their global importance and role in the water and carbon cycles. Geographical Association. [Online]. Available from: https://www.geography.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/teaching%20resources/Tropical-Peatlands_Their-global-importance-and-role-in-the-water-and-carbon-cycles.pdf
2017
Green, S. & Page, S.E. 2017. Tropical peatlands: current plight and need for responsible management. Geology Today. 33 (5), pp.174-179.
Global Peatlands
2022
Akwany et al. 2022. Chapter 3, Regional Assessment for Africa. In: UNEP. Global Peatlands Assessment – The State of the World’s Peatlands: Evidence for action toward the conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of peatlands. Main Report. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme, pp.63-93.
2019
United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme. 2019. Conservation and sustainable management of peatlands (9 March 2019). [Online]. UNEP/EA.4/L.19. Available from: http://web.unep.org/environmentassembly/ministerial-declaration-resolutions-and-decisions-unea-4
2017
Crump, J. (Ed.) 2017. Smoke on Water – Countering Global Threats From Peatland Loss and Degradation. A UNEP Rapid Response Assessment. Nairobi and Arendal: UNEP and GRID-Arendal.