PaluWise

PaluWise is an EU-funded initiative dedicated to the development of advanced solutions for the productive use of rewetted degraded peatland ecosystems. The EU aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by at least 55% by 2030. Paludiculture is the productive land use of wet and rewetted peatlands and can reduce these emissions by up to 70-80%. It thus has a large potential to support the EU’s climate targets and biodiversity strategy and still provide farmers and landowners with income, but only if the practice is scaled up. Currently, there are too few large-scale sites involving local actors that demonstrate industrial scale paludiculture farming models. Our 4 large-scale paludiculture sites in Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom will showcase best practices and solutions for converting degraded organic soils to paludiculture.