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Peatlands could be used to bring substantial carbon storage benefits in the fight against climate change. That’s the suggestion from the British Ecological Society, which has launched a new report today – it suggests a restoration of the UK’s peatlands should become a priority for policymakers. The analysis estimates the UK’s 2.6 million hectares of peatland currently store around three billion tonnes of carbon. However, most of these peatlands are in a degraded state and are no longer actively sequestering carbon, the study finds. The authors of the report estimate peatlands could be emitting as much as 23 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year – this is equivalent to nearly half the amount of carbon released from the UK’s agricultural sector.

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