Registration for the Wetlands in Action Webinar Session 5 “From Policy to practice: Unlocking Wetland restoration through Markets, Regulation and Communities” is now open!
The webinar takes place on 21 April 2026 from 10:00 – 11:30 CEST.
This time our our presentations and experts are:
- Mark Reed (WET HORIZONS) is a Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship and Research Centre Director at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), and Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds and Birmingham City University. He is Research Lead for the IUCN UK Peatland Programme and co-chair of UNEP’s Global Peatland Initiative Research Working Group, with advisory roles across UK governments on just transition, natural capital investment and peatlands. He has experience creating and running voluntary carbon markets, as the original architect of the Peatland Code and lead author for the Saltmarsh Code, and the British Standards Institute’s carbon standard
- Jan Peters (ALFAwetlands) is a landscape ecologist by training, acts as managing director at Michael Succow Foundation, Partner in the Greifswald Mire Centre. His work focuses on peatlands and climate change with main expertise on policy analysis and advocacy, peatland management strategies incl. paludiculture and stakeholder co-creation processes. He holds rich experiences in international projects on climate change mitigation and adaptation and biodiversity conservation connected to peatlands in Europe (e.g. Germany, Baltic States), Asia, Africa, and South America. Additionally, he is chair of the board of Wetlands International European Association
- Caspar Verwer (REWET) is an ecologist and senior project leader at IUCN National Committee of The Netherlands, as well as the former researcher at Wageningen University and Research Center, where he studied the climate and biodiversity impacts of the loss of tropical peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia. For IUCN NL, he has worked supporting local conservation projects across the globe and is currently also involved in advisory services related to the European Nature Restoration Regulation
- Maria Del Mar Otero Villanueva (RESTORE4Cs) is a Senior Specialist in Nature Based Solutions and and Marine Conservation from the European Topic Center-University of Malaga. A coastal and marine expert on numerous international and national projects and initiatives across the Mediterranean, EU and Asia generating and facilitating knowledge transfer, developing capacity building, networking and delivering policy outreach on topics such as adaptation and mitigation to climate change, coastal wetlands, and marine biodiversity.
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