PCARB

Peatlands are an important asset for climate change mitigation, as they sequester and store carbon, an important element of current climate action policy. However, future changes in climate may alter the extent of blanket bogs and the amount of carbon they take in, due to changes in productivity and respiration.

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As the long-term responses of blanket bogs to climate change are not well understood, the PCARB project will analyse peat cores, as archives of past environmental change, to quantify how climate variability altered the rates of carbon accumulation in blanket bogs during recent millennia.

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The developed palaeo-environmental dataset, in combination with modelling of future blanket bog extent, will then inform estimates of the likely future carbon accumulation by blanket bogs in Ireland.