Key Points of the ASEAN Guidelines on Peatland Fire Management

This set of key points is extracted from the original guidelines and management practices on peatland fire management was developed at a joint workshop held in Singapore in 2015, comprising ASEAN Member State representatives, with the objective of providing a set of strategies to mitigate fires in peatland ecosystems, and the ambition of eventually overcoming them. They were subsequently adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution (COP AATHP) on 29 October 2015 in Hanoi, Viet Nam.