COP26 | Global Peatlands Initiative: Opening of the Peatland Pavilion - Demonstrating success

In this session, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) presents its work on peatlands through its Global Peatlands Initiative (GPI), highlighting the importance and the need of having a peatlands pavilion in the most important Climate change conference and its objectives. The session also celebrates GPI partner countries who will share success stories and best practices and highlight the opportunity that peatlands represent as a super Nature-Based Solution in their country, and worldwide.

Speakers:

• Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director

• Christiane Paulus, Director General of the Nature Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)

• Rubén Ramírez Mateo, Minister of Environment , Peru

• Pak Alue Dohong, Vice-Minister of Environment and Forestry, Republic of Indonesia

• María Carolina Schmidt Zaldívar, Minister of Environment, Chile

• Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport, Scotland

Session is introduced and moderated by Stuart Brooks, Head of Conservation & Policy, National Trust for Scotland.