Peatland ecosystems play a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle and have the potential to sequester carbon over millennia. However, climate change, fire, drainage and deforestation are threatening their functioning as carbon sinks and altering the fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane (CH₄) and dissolved organic carbon from these ecosystems.

In this session, we invite the global peatland community to present their research on the carbon cycle in intact and degraded peatlands across latitudes. Studies from a wide range of global peatlands, including temperate, tropical and boreal peatlands are welcome. We encourage studies including but not limited to laboratory and field experiments, flux measurements, remote sensing, microbial ecology, paleoecological studies and process-based or large-scale modeling. Efforts to understand current dynamics as well as studies exploring the past, present and future peatland responses to climate and land use change are welcome.