2026-06-05 · gigatonnes carbon in peatlands
Peat holds more carbon than all forests
Waterlogged peat soils store dead plant carbon for millennia. Draining them turns sinks into sources.
Climate grids hide gigatonnes behind identical squares — the gradient is political once you see the cell count. This grid divides global peatland carbon stock (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Peatlands and Other soil carbon — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.6 gigatonnes carbon in peatlands (0.1% of global peatland carbon stock) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from OWID — Peatlands put Peatlands at 52% of global peatland carbon stock and Other soil carbon at 48% — about 600 gigatonnes carbon in peatlands in this edition's rounding.
IPCC / Nature: peatlands ~600 Gt C — large share of soil carbon, illustrative split vs other soils.
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