Peat-Fest 2022

Rights of Peatlands

Presentation Airing August 30th at 9 AM Pacific, 12 PM Eastern, and 6 PM Central European Standard Time (CEST).

Global, Virtual Event - Registration Open!

Peat-Fest 2022 is presented by RE-PEAT.

RE-PEAT is a youth-led collective on a mission to change people’s perceptions of peatlands. They work in a collaborative, creative, and holistic fashion, depicting peatlands themselves in novel ways as well as placing a large focus on the broader context of peatlands.

Peatlands, found around the globe, are wetland ecosystems containing rich, organic matter. Under threat from human development, peatlands are major carbon sinks and critically important for curbing climate changes, and provide habitat for a wide range of species and thus critically important for protecting biodiversity.

The Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) is thrilled to joined RE-PEAT for Peat-Fest.

This year’s conference theme is the Rights of Peatlands. CDER’s Mari Margil will help open the conference, presenting a session on the growing Rights of Nature movement and strategies for how we can protect the rights of peatlands.

Peatlands are truly ecosystems for our times - requiring impactful tools for ensuring viable ecosystems in the short term, and potentially contributing to transforming our relationship with our natural surroundings going forward. Rights of Nature has the potential to transform our relationship with the natural world by expanding legal systems for the non-human world to provide us with the opportunity to hold corporations and governments accountable.

Peat-Fest 2022 Speakers:

The full lineup of speakers will be available soon and includes:

Mari Margil, Center for Democratic and Environmental and Rights

Radha D’Souza, Professor at University of Westminister Law School

Alistair McIntosh, Scottish writer and environmental activist

Khairani Barokka, writer, poet and artist

Register for the event here.