Peat is a fossil material and is since decades the major growing media constituent for horticulture in Europe. Because … of its climate impacts, some European countries developed national strategies to reduce peat use. A coordinated European … action would bring fairer and more effective impacts than isolated national strategies. The replacement of peat is possible …

Peat and other organic soils store large amounts of soil organic carbon. This includes not only typical peat soils … characteristics: genesis, mineral soil cover, peat thickness, existence of peaty horizons (7.5 to < 15 % SOC), deep ploughing … Germany (1,87 million ha without thickly covered peat soils). For a cartographic representation, the mapping units were …

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the changes in peat production and taxation of peat in the 1990’s. The study … also analyses the potential effects of changes of taxation of peat. The taxation of peat, as well as energy taxation in … general, has been continuously increasing. At the same time, subsidies on peat production have in practice been discontinued …

to adapt and make use of alternative fuels, notably peat, although its availability varied across the country. Employing … peat fields in the wake of the coal shortage. …