About Greifswald and the World

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The Greifswald Mire Centre (GMC) is a strategic cooperation between Greifswald University, the Michael Succow Foundation, and DUENE e.V. that has over 200 years of combined experience in peatland research and conservation. The GMC works to protect peatlands through climate protection, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable use. It functions as an interface between science, policy, and practice to develop innovative solutions for peatlands worldwide. Key activities include operating databases on peatlands and paludiculture plants, conducting research projects, advising policymakers, and implementing restoration. The GMC also partners globally to jointly address major challenges facing peatlands.

Why Greifswald?
200 years of peatland research in
Greifswald
1820: C.F. Hornschuch founded
peatland science Greifswald
1824: Adelbert von Chamisso
published about peatland near
Greifswald lagoon

• Greifswald University
• Michael Succow Foundation
• DUENE e.V.
Peatland-related activities since 2015:
 external joint branding
 internal coordinated planning

• Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität
Greifswald
 Wissenschaft
• Michael Succow Stiftung
 Umsetzung
• DUENE e.V.
 Politikberatung
• Greifswald University
• Michael Succow Foundation
• DUENE e.V.

• a strategic cooperation between the three institutions
• major topics:
Climate protection: Reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions from peatlands and ecosystem-based
adaptation
Biodiversity: Conservation and restoration of peatlands
Other ecosystem services: Knowledge, valuation and
protection
Sustainable use: Paludiculture and innovative financing
What is the GMC?

Vision
Our vision is a world in which
• peatlands are seen and understood
as vital and vulnerable systems,
• natural peatlands are conserved,
• degraded peatlands are restored, and
• any use of peatlands is sustainable.
Mission
The Greifswald Mire Centre is - as an interface between science, policy and
practice – innovator and originator in solutions for peatlands, locally and worldwide.

Currently ~75 peatland scientists on one spot

GMC has global orientation with respect to collecting/integrating data
and developing concepts and methodologies
Research and implementation projects mainly in temperate latitudes

• Greifswald University
 science
• Michael Succow Foundation
 implementation
• DUENE e.V.
 advice
GPD PeNCILDPPP

• Database on peatlands worldwide
• Integration of data and own mapping
Global Peatland Database (GPD)

Website:
www.schweizerbart.com/9783510653836

Book launch at UNFCCC side event in May 2017 in Bonn: Handing over to
Indonesia (Nur Masripatin, Head of Delegation): heavy N-S transfer ;-)

• Worldwide research on plants for paludiculture
• Current state: >1,000 plant portraits
Database of Potential Paludiculture-
Plants (DPPP)
Fodder
Energy
Food
Medicine
Fibres

Arif Havas Oegroseno, ambassador of Indonesia in Germany,
inspecting GMC paludiculture demonstration site

Advice/lobby: 04.12.2019 with CAP reporter and EPP vice
president on peatlands and paludiculture...

Peatland library (PeNCIL)
• ~ 25.000 publications
• Special collection of the library of Greifswald University

Old manuscripts of Betje Polak (1939) in the library led to
‘rediscovery’ of Rawa Lakbok peatland on Java 2013
Java

…which even made it to National Geographic Indonesia …

Research
(University)
Advise
(DUENE)
Implementation
(Succow
Foundation)
GMC
Example: Rewetting and paludiculture

 2017-2020 (5 Mio Euro)
Renewed peat formation after rewetting
Research

 Restoration of >60,000 ha peatland
Implementation

Paludiculture suitability map of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (NE-Germany)
Class 1, suitable for any type of paludiculture (85,000 ha)
Class 2, suitable but plantations need approval (50,000 ha)
Class 3, suitable excl. plantations (29,000 ha)
Class 4, not suitable (1,500 ha)
Peatland not under EU agricultural funding
Advise

GMC: Early founding member of the…
Similar teamwork of science/policy/ implementation:
To address the global peatland challenges jointly!

www. greifswaldmoor.de @greifswaldmoor
GMC: always open for cooperation:
Because it is necessary and
because it makes fun!

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