Past events of the IPS and related organisations
2018
Ramsar STRP21
Gland, Switzerland
15 - 19 January 2018
www.ramsar.org
Industry Member Meeting (invited persons)
Espoo, Finland
31 January 2018
2nd Finnish Peatland Day
Helsinki, Finland
2 February 2018
www.suoseura.fi
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
6 - 7 February 2018
24th GRET PERG Symposium
Université Laval
Quebéc City, Canada
15 February 2018
www.gret-perg.ulaval.ca
9th European Ramsar Meeting (ERM9)
Olomouc, Czech Republic
19 - 23 March 2018
www.ramsar.org
Global Peatlands Initiative
Third Partners meeting
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
21 - 23 March 2018
Indonesian National Committee
Annual Meeting + International Seminar
Jakarta/Bogor/Denpasar
April 2018
German National Committee
17th Seminar „Moor und Torf“
Zeven, Germany
April 2018
www.dgmtev.de
EGU General Assembly 2018 in Vienna
Vienna, Austria
8 - 13 April 2018
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018
Executive Board Meeting
16 - 17 April 2018
Vilnius, Lithuania
United Nations Climate Change Conference
SB 4
Bonn, Germany
30 April - 10 May 2018
http://unfccc.int
2017
IPS Executive Board Meeting (phone)
18 January, 14 - 16 hrs
2 February 2017
World Wetlands Day
www.ramsar.org
Gland, Switzerland
13 - 17 February 2017
www.ramsar.org
International Conference on Climate Change 2017 (ICCC 2017)
Climate Change, Facing the challenge beyond COP21
Colombo, Sri Lanka
16 - 17 February 2017
http://climatechangeconferences.com
23rd PERG Symposium
Université Laval, Québec City
21 - 22 February 2017
www.gret-perg.ulaval.ca
IVG Media Day Gardening
Cologne, Germany
22 February 2017
www.ivg.org
Executive Board Meeting
Lund, Sweden
1 - 3 March 2017
Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon (GSOC17)
Rome, Italy
21 - 23 March 2017
www.fao.org
Seminar
Helsinki, 24 March 2017
www.suoseura.fi
53rd Session of the IPCC Bureau and 45th Session of the IPCC
Guadalajara, Mexico
26 - 31 March 2017
www.ipcc.ch
Blanket Bog and Climate Change
York, United Kingdom
28 March 2017
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/event/workshop-blanket-bog-climate-change
Nordic Baltic Bionenergy
Helsinki, Finland
29 - 30 March 2017
www.nordicbalticbioenergy.eu
Executive Board meeting
Phone, 6 April 2017
Global Peatlands Initiative side event
at UNFCCC SBSTA 46
Bonn, Germany
9 May 2017
www.globalpeatlands.org
German Peat and Peatland Seminar und Excursion
Zeven, Germany
12 - 13 Mai 2017
www.dgmtev.de
Global Peatlands Initiative
Jakarta, Indonesia
15 - 17 May 2017
www.globalpeatlands.org
Global Peatlands Initiative
Jakarta, Indonesia
15 - 17 May 2017
www.globalpeatlands.org
Global Landscapes Forum: Peatlands Matter
Jakarta, Indonesia
18 May 2017
www.landscapes.org/peatlands
German Peat and Peatland Society
Naturschutzfachliche Leitplanken für Tourismus und Umweltbildung an und in Mooren
Drübeck, Harz, Germany
22 - 24 May 2017
www.dgmtev.de
Sheffield, United Kingdom
23 - 24 May 2017
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/event/wood-meadows-pastures
CGU and CSAFM Joint Annual Scientific Meeting
Vancouver, Canada
28 - 31 May 2017
www.cgu-ugc2017meeting.ca
Aberdeen, Scotland, Scotland
28 - 31 May 2017
www.peatlands2017.net
28 May: IPS business meetings: EB, SAB and Commissions + dinner
29 and 31 May: Symposium and workshop “Responsible Management of Peatlands”
30 May: Excursions
31 May: Annual Assembly Transdisciplinary Conversations on Peat and Peatlands
History-Heritage-Science-Culture-Management-Restoration
Cork, Ireland
8 July 2017
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/03/14/transdisciplinary-conversations-on-peat-and-peatlands
Fen Peatlands After Drainage – organic soils in mountain areas
Kudowa Zdrój, Poland
10 - 13 July 2017
http://uwm.edu.pl/peat/
barbara.kalisz (at) uwm.edu.pl
Conservation and Management of Wetland Habitats
Riga, Latvia
11 - 12 July 2017
www.mitraji.lv
Finnish National Committee (Suoseura)
Summer field trip
Hossa National Park, leaving from Oulu
16 - 17 August 2017
www.suoseura.fi
IMCG field symposium
Mires of the Northern Part of European Russia
22 July - 4 August 2017
www.imcg.net
tania.minajewa (at) gmail.com
ISHS-IPS Joint International Symposium on Growing Media, Soilless Cultivation, and Compost Utilization in Horticulture
Portland, Oregon, USA
20 - 25 August 2017
http://newbeginningsmanagement.com/compsubsci2017
10th International Carbon Dioxide Conference
21 - 25 August 2017
Interlaken, Switzerland
www.icdc10.unibe.ch
Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)
7th World Conference
Foz do Iguassu, Brazil
27 August to 1 September 2017
www.ser.org
Green is Life Expo
Warsaw, Poland
31 August - 2 September 2017
www.greenislife.pl
Wilder Visions - Peatlands for Birds: Issues & Opportunities in Re-constructing Peat Landscapes in Uplands and Lowlands
Sheffield, UK
6 - 8 September 2017
www.ukeconet.org/
peatlandsforbirds.html
Ina-peat
National Seminar on Peatlands
Palangkaraya, Indonesia
6 - 8 September 2017
budindra (at) ipb.ac.id
Wood and Bioenergy
Jyväskylä, Finland
6 - 8 September 2017
www.bioenergiamessut.fi
IFRO
12th Anniversary Congress
Freiburg, Germany
18 - 22 September 2017
www.iufro2017.com
German Peat and Peatland Society
Annual Assembly and Excursions
Deuselbach, Hunsrück
20 - 23 September 2017
www.dgmtev.de
Carbon Cycling in Boreal Peatlands and Climate Change II – Hyytiälä revisited
Hyytiälä, Finland
25 - 29 September 2017
aino.korrensalo (at) uef.fi
harri.vasander (at) helsinki.fi
2nd International conference on the utilization of wetland plants RRR2017
Renewable resources from wet and rewetted peatlands
Greifswald, Germany
26 - 28 September 2017
www.paludiculture.uni-greifswald.de/en/projekte/rrr2017/index.php
Lower Saxony, Germany
29 - 30 September 2017
www.paludiculture.uni-greifswald.de/en/projekte/rrr2017/iWSSF.php
History & Heritage of the Bogs & Peatlands of Cumbria
Eco-science in the Park: Shadow Woods and Ghosts on Peatland Landscapes
Longshaw, UK
7 October 2017
www.ukeconet.org
Executive Board Meeting
Poznan, Poland
10 - 11 October 2017
German National Committee
Rewetting of bogs in the Eider-Treene-Sorge Lowland
Stiftung Naturschutz und LLUR Schleswig-Holstein in cooperation with DGMT
12 - 14 October 2017
www.dgmtev.de
Tropical Peatland Round Table
Jakarta, Indonesia
1 - 4 November 2017
UNFCCC
47th session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 47)
Bonn, Germany
6 to 15 November 2017
http://unfccc.int/meetings/bonn_nov_2017/session/10379.php
IVG Forum Gartenmarkt
German Gardening Industry Association
Berlin, Germany
8 November 2017
www.ivg.org/forum-gartenmarkt-2017
German National Committee
Sphagnum Identification seminar
MoorInformationsZentrum Ahlenmoor, Germany
9 - 12 December 2017
www.dgmtev.de
Multiple use of Finland's forests and peatlands
Helsinki, Finland
14 November 2017
anne.tolvanen (at) luke.fi
Technical workshop for review of the voluntary guidelines for the design and effective implementation of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
Bonn, Germany
20 - 22 November
www.cbd.int
International Conference on Climate Smart Agriculture on Organic Soils
Uppsala, Sweden
23 - 24 November 2017
www.slu.se/CAOSconference
52. Deutsche Torf- und Humustag
Bad Zwischenahn, Germany
23 November 2017
www.ivg.org
Paludiculture UK - Working with wetlands
29 - 30 November 2017
Murley Moss, Kendal
UK
http://ow.ly/C8qz30fTSIT
Expert Workshop on Setting the course for EU policies on peatland climate mitigation Brussels, Belgium
6 December 2017
www.caos-project.eu
www.paludiculture.uni-greifswald.de/en/projekte/cinderella/index.php
CBD 21st Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 21)
Montreal, Canada
11 - 14 December 2017
www.cbd.int
Bioenergia ry
Autumn meeting
Helsinki, Finland
13 December 2017
www.bioenergia.fi
CBD 10th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions (WG8J 10)
Montreal, Canada
13 - 16 December 2017
www.cbd.int
Global Landscapes Forum
Bonn, Germany
19 - 20 December 2017
www.globalpeatlands.org
DGMT / Germany 2017
- Experten-Workshop zur Definition und Gliederung von Moorböden in Zusammenarbeit mit der
Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft in Hannover, 7.3.2017
- 16. Seminar „Moor und Torf“ in Zeven, 12./13.5.2017
- „Moorschutz in Niedersachsen – ein Erfahrungsaustausch“ in Schneverdingen, Alfred Toepfer
Akademie für Naturschutz in Kooperation mit der DGMT, 17./18.5.2017
- „Naturschutzfachliche Leitplanken für Tourismus und Umweltbildung an und in Mooren – eine
Standortbestimmung“ in Drübeck am Harz, 22./ 23.5.2017
- Fachgespräch „Wasserwirtschaft und Moorschutz“ in Schüberg bei Hamburg, DGMT und
Greifswald Moorzentrum, 6./7.6.2017
- Jahrestagung und Exkursionen der DGMT im Hunsrück, 20.–23.9.2017
2016
Grüne Woche, international green week Berlin
Berlin, Germany
15 - 24 January 2016
www.gruenewoche.de
IPM Essen at the Messe Essen
Essen, Germany
26 - 29 January 2016
www.ipm-essen.de
World Wetlands Day
2 February
www.worldwetlandsday.org
Peatlands in the Bioeconomy World
First National Peatland Day
Helsinki, Finland
2 February 2016
www.suoseura.fi
Webinar: The Importance of Wetlands in Addressing Climate Change
and creating a Role for Wetlands
Through The Paris Climate Accord (Part 1)
& Northern Peatlands and the Global Carbon Balance –
Why We All Need to Care! (Part 2)
11 February 2016
www.sws.org
31st Salon du Vegetal
Parc des Expositions
Angers, France
16 - 18 February 2016
www.salonduvegetal.com
Executive Board meeting
by phone
24 February 2016
Zürich, Switzerland
16 - 20 March 2016
www.giardina.ch
IPS Executive Board Meeting
Helsinki, Finland
5 - 6 April 2016
Finnish National Committee
Spring Seminar
Helsinki 7 April 2016
www.suoseura.fi
43rd session of IPCC
Nairobi, Kenya
11 - 15 April 2016
www.ipcc.ch
Flower Expo Ukraine
International Exhibition Centre
Kiev, Ukraine
12 - 14 April 2016
www.flowerexpo-ukraine.com
National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration
Coral Springs, Florida, USA
18 - 22 April 2016
www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/NCER2016
Nordic Baltic Bioenergy
Vilnius, Lithuania, 19 - 21 April 2016
www.nordicbalticbioenergy.eu
Peatlands in the EU Regulatory Environment.
Brussels, Belgium, 19 April 2016
http://succow-stiftung.de/peatlands-in-the-eu-regulatory.html
Medan, Indonesia
20 - 22 April 2016
www.palmoilconference.com
11th Annual SWS European Chapter Meeting
17-20 May 2016 Potsdam, Germany
in cooperation with the German Peat Society
http://sws-europe.igb-berlin.de
Executive Board
phone meeting
18 May, 15-17 hrs Finnish time
www.peatlands.org
World Bioenergy Week
Stockholm, Sweden
24 May - 26 May 2016
www.iwbweek.com
2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists
Texas, USA
31 May - 4 June 2016
www.swsannualmeeting.org
8th Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity
“Food systems for a sustainable future: Interlinkages between biodiversity and agriculture”
Trondheim, Norway
31 May – 3 June 2016
www.trondheimconference.org
Finnish National Committee Excursion to Estonia
2 - 3 June 2016
www.suoseura.fi
Bloom Ireland
Phoenix Park
Dublin, Ireland
2 - 6 June 2016
www.bloominthepark.com
IPS Executive Board Meeting by phone
8 June 2016
2016 Flower Trials
14 - 16 June 2016
Germany / Netherlands
www.flowertrials.com
German Peat Society
Peatland conservation in Lower Saxony
Meppen, Germany
22 - 23 June 2016
www.dgmtev.de/veranstaltungen.html
IPS Executive Board Meeting
Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
National Committee Round Table
Kuching, Malaysia
14 August 2016
15th International Peat Congress
"Peatland in Harmony - Agriculture, Industry, Nature"
Kuching, Malaysia, 15 - 19 August 2016
www.ipc2016.com
IPS-IMCG Meeting
Kuching, Malaysia
18 August 2016
IPS Annual Assembly and General Assembly
IPS Executive Board Meeting
Kuching, Malaysia
19 August 2016
6th International Meeting on the Biology of Sphagnum
Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 15 - 24 August 2016
http://mukhrinostation.com
IMCG Field Symposium and Congress
Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo
Malaysia and Brunei, 19 - 28 August 2016
www.imcg.net
10th European Conference on Ecological Restoration
‘Best Practices in Ecological Restoration’
Freising, Germany, 21 - 27 August 2016
www.ser.org
3rd International Conference on Agricultural and Food Engineering
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23 - 25 August, 2016
www.cafei.upm.edu.my
Global Peatland Initiative
FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy
1 - 2 September 2016
www.unep.org/stories/Climate/Peat-fires-stoke-global-warming.asp
24th International trade exhibition Green is Life
Warsaw, Poland
1 - 3 September 2016
www.greenislife.pl
IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016
Hawaii, United States
1 - 10 September 2016
www.iucnworldconservationcongress.org
Raptors, Uplands and Peatlands
Conservation, Land Management & Issues
Sheffield & the Peak District
9-10 September 2016
www.ukeconet.org/raptors.html
Workshop “Peatland Conservation and Wise Use in the Context of Climate Change”
Isle of Vilm, Germany
11 - 14 September 2016
http://ow.ly/pUwD303FDy5
16th Baltic Peat Producers Forum
Kaunas, Lithuania
14 - 16 September 2016
www.asocdurpes.lt/en
10th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference
`Hotspots of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services under Global Changes`
Changshu, China
19 - 24 September 2016
http://intecol-10iwc.com/EN/Index.aspx
LIFE+ Project - Making Moor Space workshop
South Yorkshire, England
26 September 2016
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org
Executive Board Meeting No 86
Phone/Skype 27 September 27, 15 hrs EET
Scientific Advisory Board
Hamburg, Germany
12 October 2016
44th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Bangkok, Thailand
17-20 October 2016
http://ipcc.ch
EUROPARCS Conference 2016
Seminar about peatland restoration, paludiculture and climate change
Jura Vaudois Regional Park, Switzerland
19 - 23 October 2016
www.europarc.org
Finnish Bioenergy Day
Tampere, 24 October 2016
www.bioenergiapaivat.fi
Indonesian National Committee
Seminar on Restoration, Conservation and Sustainable Management of Peatlands
Bogor City, Indonesia
26 - 28 October 2016
semnashgi@gmail.com
1 November at 14-16 hrs EET
IPS Executive Board Meeting
Naaldwijk, Netherlands
16 - 18 November 2016
Biofuels in History - Issues of Energy, History, Landscape & Environmental Change
Sheffield, UK
17 - 18 November 2016
www.ukeconet.org/biofuelhistory.html
22nd Conference of the Parties (COP 22) and
12th COP to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12)
Bab Ighli, Marrakech, Morocco
7 - 18 November 2016
http://unfccc.int/2860.php
IPS Finnish National Committee (Suoseura)
Autumn assembly and seminar
Helsinki, 22 November 2016
www.suoseura.fi
December 2016
Business and Biodiversity Forum
Cancun, Mexico
2-3 December 2016 in
http://cop13.mx/en/business-and-biodiversity-forum-2016
Convention on Biological Diversity
13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties
Cancun, Mexico
4 - 17 December 2016
www.cbd.int/cop
BRG International Symposium Towards Integrated, Organized and Massive Peatland Restoration Action in Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia
15 - 16 December 2016
2nd China Peat Industry Forum
24 - 25 December 2016
2015
Executive Board & Scientific Advisory Board Strategy Days
Twist/Geeste, Germany
18 - 20 January 2015
PERG's 21st Symposium
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
17 - 18 February 2015
www.wetlandshydrology.com/perg.html
The IEA's World Energy Outlook 2014: What are the implications for the EU's 2030 Climate and Energy Framework?
Brussels, Belgium
24 February 2015
www.europeanenergyforum.eu/iea-s-world-energy-outlook-2014-what-are-implications-eu-s-2030-climate-and-energy-framework
Executive Board Meeting
Berlin, Germany
16 - 17 March 2015
European Biomass Association (AEBIOM) Bioenergy Conference
Brussels, Belgium
4 - 6 May 2015
www.aebiom.org/conference
SWS European Chapter Meeting
Bled, Slovenia
10 - 13 May 2015
www.sws.org/europe-chapter
The 17th IBFRA Conference: Towards a New Era of Forest Science in Boreal Region
Rovaniemi, Finland
24 - 29 May 2015
www.ibfra2015.org
Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) Annual Meeting
Changing Climate. Changing Wetlands
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
31 May - 4 June 2015
www.swsannualmeeting.org
Ramsar COP12
Punta, del Este, Uruguay
1 - 9 June 2015
www.ramsar.org
Biotalous 2015
Helsinki, Finland
UNFCCC
Climate Change Conference
Bonn, Germany
1 - 11 June 2015
http://unfccc.int/meetings/unfccc_calendar/items/2655.php
IPS Annual Meetings
"A new conversation on peatlands"
Tullamore, Ireland
7 - 12 June 2015
www.irishpeatsociety.ie
Sunday, 7 June
SAB 8:30 - 13:00
EB 14:00 - 17:00
Commission II 17:00 - 19:00
Thursday, 11 June
National Committee Round Table 9:00-11:00
Annual Assembly 11:00-13:00
e-mail: info (at) ainoklinikat.fi
Finnish Peatland Society
Excursion to Central Finland
More info: www.suoseura.fi
SER 2015 World Conference on Ecological Restoration
Towards Resilient Ecosystems: Restoring the Urban, the Rural and the Wild
Manchester, UK
23 - 27 August 2015
www.ser2015.org
Mires of Northern Europe: Biodiversity, Dynamics, Management
Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russia
2 - 5 September 2015
email: mire2015 (at) krc.karelia.ru
Bioenergy and Wood 2015
Jyväskylä, Finland
2 - 4 September 2015
www.bioenergyevents.fi
IPS-ISHS Peat in Horticulture
Vienna, Austria
7 - 11 September 2015
www.ages.at/susgro2015
Wilder by Design 2
Sheffield, UK
9 - 11 September 2015
www.ukeconet.org/event/wilder-by-design-wild-thing
Molinia management on upland peat in the UK
Huddersfield, UK
14 - 16 September 2015
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/marsdenmoor
Baltic Peat Producers Forum
Kuressaare, Estonia
15 - 18 September 2015
www.bppf2015.eu
UK Peat Society Annual Meeting
September 2015
More info: jack.rieley (at) btinternet.com
Third International Scientific and Practical Conference
"Study and use of Siberian peat resources"
Tomsk, Russia
27 September – 2 October 2015
http://ips2015tomsk.ru
Ramsar STRP
Gland, Switzerland
5-9 October
www.ramsar.org
42nd Session of the IPCC
Dubrovnik, Croatia
5 - 8 October 2015
climate-l.iisd.org/events/42nd-session-of-the-ipcc/
Deutscher Torf- und Humustag
Bad Zwischenahn, Germany
15 October 2015
www.ivg.org/de
Research in the ‘Flow Country’: Taking Stock
Thurso, UK
27 - 30 October 2015
http://www.eri.ac.uk/eri/eri_aca/projectdetails.aspx?ind=24
Geological Society Of America (GSA) Annual meeting
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
1 - 4 November 2015
www.geosociety.org/meetings
Convention on Biological Diversity
Montreal, Canada
2 - 5 November 2015
www.cbd.int
Peatland restoration seminar
Värnamo, Sweden
3-5 November 2015
www.lifetoaddmire.se
International Floriculture & Horticulture Trade Fair
Vijfhuizen, Netherlands
4 - 6 November 2015
www.hppexhibitions.com
FloraHolland Trade Fair Aalsmeer
Aalsmeer, Netherlands
4 - 6 November 2015
www.floraholland.com/tradefair
International Exhibition and Conference on Landscape, Leisure, Greenery Design, Construction and Technology
Singapore
5 - 7 November 2015
Finnish Peatland Society
Peatlands in land use planning
Helsinki, Finland
25 November 2015
www.suoseura.fi
IPS Executive Board Meeting
Düsseldorf, Germany
23 - 24 November 2015
2nd International Conference
Local and Global Arctic
In the Spirit of the Rovaniemi Process
Rovaniemi, Finland
24 - 26 November 2015
www.rovaniemiprocess.fi/en/invitation
UNFCCC COP 21
Paris, France
30 November - 11 December 2015
www.unfccc.int
"Planning for Climate Change" Conference
London, UK
21 December 2015
www.planforclimatechange.co.uk
