Rationale for the International Tropical Peatlands Center
In the spirit of international, multi-stakeholder and multi-donor South-South cooperation with an eye to partner with the international community, the International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC) is built on the principle of true cross-sector collaboration and integration, building a resilient and holistic platform for science, policy and practice, and attracting the best minds working on research and practice in this field.
The Government of Indonesia with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, the Government of Peru announced in Jakarta, 30 October 2018, a collaboration to form ITPC.
The launch was the next step after the historic 2018 Brazzaville Declaration to promote better management and conservation of the world’s largest tropical peatlands, the Cuvette Centrale region in the Congo Basin, and to undertake other peatland initiatives.
