Flexible Fund Award Projects: Background & Project Summaries
The GGR-Peat project manages a small grant award scheme and has given out Flexible Fund Awards to four projects. The aim of the awards is to support short-term projects (max 9 months) related to the management of peatlands that function to sequester Greenhouse gases. The successful projects address research gaps in peatland management methods and technologies for GGR, risks, deployments & scalability, and specific measures to aid policy and business development.
Project summaries:
Upscaling enhanced peat growth with heather brash
Upscaling enhanced peat growth with heather brash: Tests whether heather brash can act as a low-cost, widely available alternative to biochar for accelerating peat formation and carbon sequestration.
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Led by University of Durham.
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Project partner Natural England.
See more about the Heather Brash Flexible Fund Project
VERTIPEAT
VERTIPEAT (Vertical biomass production and quality for accelerated carbon input into rewetting agricultural peatlands): Explores high-output vertical biomass production and its suitability as a restoration amendment to accelerate carbon inputs in rewetting agricultural peatlands.
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Led by University of Leicester.
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Project partners Remediate Nature, Fenland Soil and the Carbon Compost Co.
See more about the Vertipeat Flexible Fund Project
Gypsum dose-response and peat microbial communities
Gypsum dose-response and peat microbial communities: Determines how different sulphate doses affect methane-producing microbes to support low-methane wet peat systems.
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Led by RSPB.
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Project partners FWAG SW and Moor SW Ltd.
See more about the Gypsum dose-repsonse and peat microbial communities Flexible Fund Project
Bio-flow proof of concept
Bio-flow proof of concept: Investigates whether biochar-filled subsurface conduits can improve water movement in agricultural peatlands to support rewetting and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Led by University of Leicester.
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Project partners Remediate Nature, Fenland Soil and the Carbon Compost Co.
See more about the Bioflow Flexible Fund Project
