Chapter 15
Climate-Responsible Management
of Tropical Peatlands: The Need
for Integrated MRV for Tropical Peatland
Ecosystem
Haruni Krisnawati, Wahyu Catur Adinugroho, and Rinaldi Imanuddin
Abstract Tropical peatlands are key ecosystem that demonstrate their effectiveness
in carbon storage and sink and the high potential for mitigating climate change. They
store about 30–40% of global soil carbon deposits but occupy only 3% of the world’s
land surface. However, tropical peatlands are among the most vulnerable ecosystem
that degrade rapidly due to the combined pressures of an advancing agricultural and
economic activities, growing human populations, infrastructure development, as well
as climate change and pollution. Clearing, drainage, and burning of peatlands not only
produce greenhouse gases (GHGs) emission and deadly toxic haze, but also endanger
the critical ecological services the ecosystem could provide. Although peatlands are
found in many countries, tropical peatlands remain among the least understood and
monitored of the world’s ecosystems. Addressing the sources of GHGs emission and
understanding methodological framework for estimating the emission (measurement,
reporting, and verification or MRV) for tropical peatlands are key steps to develop
strategies to mitigate the impacts as well as improve understanding of sustainable
management of tropical peatlands to cope with climate change.
Keywords GHG emission · MRV (measurement, reporting, and verification) ·
Climate change · Tropical peatland
15.1 Introduction
The area of peatlands is reported to reach 4.23 million km
2 globally (Xu et al. 2018),
which covers only 2.84% of the total global land area. Peatlands are critical
ecosystem that play an important role at global, regional, and national levels in
H. Krisnawati (*) · W. C. Adinugroho · R. Imanuddin
Forest Research and Development Center – Forestry and Environment Research, Development
and Innovation Agency, Bogor, Indonesia
e-mail: haruni.krisnawati@forda-mof.org
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
M. Osaki et al. (eds.), Tropical Peatland Eco-management,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4654-3_15
443
Climate-Responsible Management
of Tropical Peatlands: The Need
for Integrated MRV for Tropical Peatland
Ecosystem
Haruni Krisnawati, Wahyu Catur Adinugroho, and Rinaldi Imanuddin
Abstract Tropical peatlands are key ecosystem that demonstrate their effectiveness
in carbon storage and sink and the high potential for mitigating climate change. They
store about 30–40% of global soil carbon deposits but occupy only 3% of the world’s
land surface. However, tropical peatlands are among the most vulnerable ecosystem
that degrade rapidly due to the combined pressures of an advancing agricultural and
economic activities, growing human populations, infrastructure development, as well
as climate change and pollution. Clearing, drainage, and burning of peatlands not only
produce greenhouse gases (GHGs) emission and deadly toxic haze, but also endanger
the critical ecological services the ecosystem could provide. Although peatlands are
found in many countries, tropical peatlands remain among the least understood and
monitored of the world’s ecosystems. Addressing the sources of GHGs emission and
understanding methodological framework for estimating the emission (measurement,
reporting, and verification or MRV) for tropical peatlands are key steps to develop
strategies to mitigate the impacts as well as improve understanding of sustainable
management of tropical peatlands to cope with climate change.
Keywords GHG emission · MRV (measurement, reporting, and verification) ·
Climate change · Tropical peatland
15.1 Introduction
The area of peatlands is reported to reach 4.23 million km
2 globally (Xu et al. 2018),
which covers only 2.84% of the total global land area. Peatlands are critical
ecosystem that play an important role at global, regional, and national levels in
H. Krisnawati (*) · W. C. Adinugroho · R. Imanuddin
Forest Research and Development Center – Forestry and Environment Research, Development
and Innovation Agency, Bogor, Indonesia
e-mail: haruni.krisnawati@forda-mof.org
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
M. Osaki et al. (eds.), Tropical Peatland Eco-management,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4654-3_15
443