A 12-month research project by Professors Simon Lewis and Ifo Suspense Averti, funded by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment “The opportunity still exists to protect the peatlands in a largely intact state, possibly drawing on climate change mitigation funding, which can be used not only to protect the peat carbon pool …
Read the CongoPeat Newsletter Issue 10 – March 2024.
Prof Simon Lewis (CongoPeat Lead Scientist / University of Leeds & UCL) and CongoPeat colleagues are speaking at the following events:
The EGU23 call for abstracts for the session Tropical Peatlands: Past, Present, Uncertain Future is awaiting your contribution! The conference will take place in Vienna, Austria and online from 23-28 April 2023. It is open to scientists of all nations. The session convenors are Professor Simon Lewis, Dr Greta Dargie, Dr Euridice Honorio Coronado and Professor Susan Page.
Read the CongoPeat Newsletter Issue 09 – July 2023.
Read the CongoPeat Newsletter Issue 08 – December 2022.
Prof Simon Lewis (CongoPeat Lead Scientist / University of Leeds & UCL) and CongoPeat colleagues are speaking at the following events:
The EGU23 call for abstracts for the session Tropical Peatlands: Past, Present, Uncertain Future is awaiting your contribution! The conference will take place in Vienna, Austria and online from 23-28 April 2023. It is open to scientists of all nations. The session convenors are Professor Simon Lewis, Dr Greta Dargie, Dr Euridice Honorio Coronado and Professor Susan Page.
A COP27 briefing from the CongoPeat international team of scientists.
The CongoPeat network is sad to learn of the death of Professor Jean-Marie Moutsamboté on the 3rd of September, 2022. Professor Moutsamboté was the Republic of the Congo’s most highly regarded botanist, and one of the few people to study the plants of the Cuvette Centrale peatlands.