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The Great North Bog is a large restoration initiative covering over 90% [1] of the upland peatland in the North of England. [2] It is a £200m project and aims to restore nearly 7,000 square kilometres of upland over 20 years. [3]
The Global Peatlands Initiative is an effort made by leading experts and institutions formed in 2016 by 13 founding members at the UNFCCC COP in Marrakech, Morocco. [1] The mission of the Initiative is to protect and conserve peatlands as the world's largest terrestrial organic carbon stock and to prevent it from being emitted into the atmosphere.
In 2022, Somerset Wildlife Trust issued a "position statement" on peat extraction in Somerset, calling for the practice to end immediately, and stating that "Given that the cost of peatland restoration will continue to increase until extraction ceases, it would be both illogical and an inefficient use of public funds for UK Governments to ...
Peatland restoration is a term describing measures to restore the original form and function of peatlands, or wet peat-rich areas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This landscape globally occupies 400 million hectares or 3% of land surface on Earth.
The UK Land Carbon Registry now houses credits from both the Woodland Carbon Code and the Peatland Code. [ citation needed ] Verified Woodland Carbon Units can be used by companies with UK-based emissions to come to a net figure, as set out in the UK's Environmental Reporting Guidelines.
Eisler Capital (Eisler) is a multi-strategy hedge fund management firm headquartered in London, founded in 2015 by former Goldman Sachs partner Edward Eisler. Originally established as a global macro fund, it transitioned to a multi-manager investment approach in 2021.
The Irish Peatland Conservation Council (IPCC; Irish: Comhairle Chaomhnaithe Phortaigh na hÉireann) is a national charitable organisation established in 1982 to conserve and protect a representative sample of bogs in Ireland, [1] and to campaign on bog-related issues.
Its flagship hedge fund launched in 2001, was the Lansdowne's UK equities fund managed by Peter Davies and Stuart Roden who previously worked at Mercury Asset Management. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Lansdowne enjoyed early success and in November 2006 when it sold a 19% stake to Morgan Stanley Investment Management, it had $12 billion in AUM across ...