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WCC 2016 Res 043 - Activity Report

Submitted by Barbara.Engels on Tue, 01/22/2019 - 11:17
General Information
Securing the future for global peatlands
IUCN Constituent: 
Bundesamt für Naturschutz
IUCN Constituent type: 
IUCN Member
Period covered: 
2019
Geographic scope: 
Country
Country/Territory: 
Germany
In implementing this Resolution your organization has worked/consulted with...
IUCN Members: 
Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit und Verbraucherschutz ( BMUV ) / Germany
IUCN Secretariat: 
No
Other non-IUCN related organisations: 
Federal States
Implementation
Indicate and briefly describe any actions that have been carried out to implement this Resolution: 
ActionDescriptionStatus
Policy influencing/advocacyElaboration of a national peatland protection strategy and a peat protection strategy within the running legislation period (by the end of 2020)On-going
Policy influencing/advocacyElaboration of a target agreement for peatland protection between the German national state and the federal states (by the end of 2019); important aspects of this agreement are to be introduced into a climate protection law (spring 2019)On-going
Please report on the result /achievement of the actions taken: 
political agreements and strategies;
restored or partly rewetted peatlands
What challenges have you encountered in implementing this Resolution and what measures have you taken to overcome them?: 
gaining support of landusers for rewetting dry peatlands; setting up structural funding instruments for the conversion from dry to wet landuse on peatlands
Identify and briefly describe what future actions are planned for the implementation of this Resolution: 
Future ActionDescription
Field activitiesimplementation measures
Policy influencing/advocacyImportant aspects of this agreement are to be introduced into a climate protection law (spring 2019)