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hypocrisy","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/story\/2025\/02\/03\/canadas-climate-hypocrisy-destroying-peatlands\/449087\/","datePublished":"2025-02-03T01:00:00-05:00","dateModified":"2025-01-28T16:37:30-05:00","description":"It\u2019s beyond time we put a spotlight on our country's peatlands.","articleSection":"","articleBody":"Earlier this month, climate scientists announced a milestone: Earth\u2019s average temperature has climbed to more than 1.5 \u00b0C above pre-industrial levels\u2014the warming limit set in the Paris Agreement. We are failing to meaningfully curb climate change, and it\u2019s time to get honest about our climate policy's blind spots. One of these blind spots is the disturbance and degradation of peatlands across Canada. Peatlands in this country store approximately 150 billion tonnes of carbon. To avoid climate disaster, this carbon needs to stay in the ground, and peatlands need to continue their function as long-term persistent carbon sinks. With World Wetlands Day approaching on Feb. 2, it\u2019s time to elevate our peatlands on the climate agenda. Peatlands are carbon-rich freshwater wetland ecosystems that cool the global climate by slowly removing CO2 from the atmosphere over thousands of years, and storing this carbon in deep peat soils. Peatlands store more carbon globally than all of the world\u2019s vegetation combined. Canada is home to a quarter of the world\u2019s peatlands, and the world\u2019s largest peat carbon stock. Beyond their carbon services, healthy, intact peatlands are critical to traditional Indigenous livelihoods for many First Nations, M\u00e9tis, and Inuit, and they provide important wildlife habitat, host globally rare plants and lichens, provide freshwater storage and filtration, and can act to slow or prevent fire. When peatlands are drained, not only do they become net emitters, but also they act as fuel for fires, putting people and communities at risk. Victoria Goodday. Handout photograph Despite this, Canadian policy action on peatlands is almost nil. Though our country is uniquely positioned to proactively protect large areas of globally significant, undisturbed peatlands, we are not valuing nor effectively stewarding these critical ecosystems. Canada has no co-ordinated strategy or plan for peatlands, nor does it include peatlands in its nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. Peatlands are regularly disturbed and drained, including for critical minerals development. There is hypocrisy in attempting to justify degrading a globally important carbon-rich ecosystem to feed a \u201cgreen\u201d transition and military arsenals. The critical consideration here is the value that peatlands have by remaining intact. Canada can follow the lead of an increasing number of countries\u2014currently 15 per cent of parties to the Convention\u2014that record peatland targets and actions in their NDCs. Large, high-integrity peatland complexes, in particular, are a rarity these days; Canada contains some of the last remaining in the world, including the vast Hudson Bay Lowland, a region home to many Indigenous communities, spanning northern Ontario, Manitoba, and a portion of Quebec. Other countries aren\u2019t so lucky. They degraded most of their peatlands decades ago, and now face the expensive task of restoring these landscapes to prevent continued carbon losses. Driven by the goal to stop degraded peatlands from emitting GHGs, countries worldwide\u2014including Germany, Finland, Austria, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, and more\u2014have recognized the climate role of peatlands, and have developed strategies and policies to reflect it. Laura Tanguay. Handout photograph A report from Wildlife Conservation Society Canada shows that peatland policy is weak across the country, and governments continue to promote policies that incentivize peatland degradation. Policy frameworks centre peatlands as a resource to be exploited\u2014as providers of peat for extraction\u2014and rarely value keeping them intact. Peatlands are usually lumped into general wetland policy\u2014and sometimes devalued compared to other wetland types\u2014and management and restoration approaches are severely inadequate for addressing the unique climate risks associated with disturbing peatlands. Peatland-related carbon impacts are usually ignored in impact assessment, land-use planning, wetland policy, and GHG reporting across Canada. It\u2019s beyond time we put a spotlight on our country's peatlands. The federal government must step into a leadership role, recognizing the essential services these ecosystems provide for communities, climate, biodiversity, and water security. A coordinated strategy between federal, provincial, territorial, and Indigenous governments, which elevates opportunities for Indigenous stewardship for peatlands, is needed along with strengthened legislative provisions to protect high-integrity peatlands and avoid peatland disturbance. Canada\u2019s global responsibility is clear and now is at a pivotal moment. If the global community is to avoid surpassing further climate thresholds, we must step up to safeguard its peatlands. Victoria Goodday is an environmental policy researcher and policy lead on forests, peatlands, and climate change with the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada. Laura Tanguay is a policy analyst with the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada. 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background-color:#fff;">'; lock_html += '<h2 style="color:black; font-weight:bolder; font-size:46px;">PEOPLE.<br>POLICY.<br>POLITICS.<br/></h2>'; lock_html += '<h2 style="color:#000; margin-bottom:-21px; font-weight:400;padding-left:2px;padding-right:2px;font-size:24px;">Subscribers have<br> full access to the<br> digital newspaper.</h2><br/>'; lock_html += '<div style="clear:both"></div><br/>'; lock_html += '<a href="/get-a-subscription"><button type="button" style="margin-top:0px !important;font-family:\'Merriweather\', serif;background-color: #AF3524;border-radius: 10px;font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; color:#fff;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:3px;" class="btn btn-primary btn-md gradient" id="subscribe-bt">SUBSCRIBE TODAY</button></a>'; lock_html += '<h2 style="color:#000; font-size: 22px;margin-top: 27px;font-weight: 400;padding-left:1px;padding-right:1px;margin-bottom: -25px;">Already a subscriber?</h2><br/>'; lock_html += '<a style="font-family:\'Merriweather\', serif; font-size: 24px !important;font-weight: 900;text-decoration: underline; color:#000 !important;" href="/login/">Log in here.</a>'; lock_html += '<div style="clear:both;margin-top:-15px;"></div><br/>'; // lock_html += '<div style="text-align:left;"> <a style="font-family:\'Open Sans\'; font-size:14px !important; font-weight:500; color:#fff !important;" href="/group-subscription/"><i style="text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;font-size:13px;" class="fas fa-chevron-circle-right"></i> Check to see if you have corporate access.</a>'; // lock_html += '</div>'; // lock_html += '<div style="text-align:left;"><a style="font-family:\'Open Sans\'; font-size:14px !important; font-weight:500; color:#fff !important;" href="/reuse-permissions/"><i style="text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;font-size:13px;" class="fas fa-chevron-circle-right"></i> To discuss re-use of this material, contact us.</a>'; // lock_html += '</div>'; lock_html += '</div>'; lock_html += '</div></div>'; //let single_article = 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