Wasted Peat Emissions

Concepts

• research services
• peat
• the net greenhouse gas emissions
• wasted peat emissions
• these new emissions factors
• “wasted peat
• emissions
• wasted
• soil survey
• soils

Location

London

Description

The project will provide updated research evidence on the net greenhouse gas emissions from soils described as “wasted peat” in England, that is to say soils which used to match the definition of peat (an organic soil layer greater than 40cm) but that no longer match this definition because of losses through intensive use. To develop these new emissions factors, the project will mainly fund the acquisition of new field measurements (soil survey and more intensive continuous measurements on a subset of sites, with techniques such as eddy-covariance or eddy accumulation). It will also fund a systematic review of evidences to integrate those results with the other evidence available by the end of the project.

Ammendments to Previous Notice

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 73110000 - Research services

Indicators

• Contract modified due to additional needs.

Legal Justification

The unforeseen scientific landscape has made the additional works necessary but due to the existing set up of equipment and measurement techniques, it would be significant duplication of cost and inconvenience to change contractor for these works.