Published March 18, 2026
| Version v1
Dataset
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The European Peatland Policy Dataset (March 2026 Snapshot)
Authors/Creators
- Ó Brolcháin, Niall (Supervisor)1
- Khan, Muhammad Yasar (Data manager)1
- Wang, Yifan (Data curator)1
- O'Donoghue, Fergus (Data curator)1
- Kessler, Samuel (Data collector)1
- Gleeson, Cáit (Data collector)1
- Cheney, Ella (Data collector)1, 2
- Šimon, Marcel (Data collector)1
- Alam, Oktavia Dewi Rizka (Data collector)1
- Magesh, Shanmathi (Data collector)1
- Hachey, Mary (Data collector)1
- Merten, Jennifer (Data collector)3
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1.
University of Galway
- 2. University College Dublin (UCD)
- 3. Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V. (NABU)
Description
This dataset (in XLSX and JSON formats) represents a static snapshot of the first comprehensive European Peatland Policy Dataset, as of March 2026.
This snapshot contains 412 peatland-affecting policies catalogued across 27 countries and 22 languages, spanning United Nations, European Union, national, and sub-national levels. Each element of the table or json list contains metadata about the policy.
The most up-to-date JSON of the European Peatland Policy Portal's Policy Dataset can be accessed on our website at this data endpoint: https://peatlandpolicyportal.eu/policydata
Files
Policies_March2026.json
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Additional details
Related works
- Is supplement to
- Preprint: 10.31235/osf.io/9mcgj_v1 (DOI)
- Publication: 10.12688/openreseurope.23501.1 (DOI)