# Toward an accurate estimate of wasted peat GHG emissions in England

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy \(BEIS\)
- Contract winner: [UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology](/contract-winners/uk-centre-for-ecology-and-hydrology/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £449,995
- Tender value: £449,994
- Award date: 13 March 2020
- Published: 7 May 2020
- Contract start: 1 May 2020
- Contract end: 31 March 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: e844b852-73b0-41f9-900f-11ffa8f20e3a-357971
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-0d53a370-48ea-4c53-958c-a09e41435a55

## Description

The project will provide updated research evidence on the net greenhouse gas emissions from soils described as "wasted peat" in England, that is to say soils which used to match the definition of peat \(an organic soil layer greater than 40cm\) but that no longer match this definition because of losses through intensive use\. To develop these new emissions factors, the project will mainly fund the acquisition of new field measurements \(soil survey and more intensive continuous measurements on a subset of sites, with techniques such as eddy-covariance or eddy accumulation\)\. It will also fund a systematic review of evidences to integrate those results with the other evidence available by the end of the project\.

## Related contract awards

- [Development of a Publicly Available Specification \(PAS\) for Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme \(ESOS\) net zero audits](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-149831af-9191-4db1-af94-c29819c278e0): The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy \(BEIS\)
- [Domestic Private Rented Sector Evaluation - Landlord Panel Survey](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-34ec61f8-d07d-4883-8de2-f124f92ecbb6): The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy \(BEIS\)
- [UK Manufacturing Technology for Next Generation Wind Turbines: Composites Phase 2](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-c3ea4071-79ff-4b6b-ba0f-33a7f8db317b): The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy \(BEIS\)
- [UNFCCC Inventory Review](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1611704a-91c3-4cfe-9664-34f938d33834): DESNZ
- [Provision of Operation & Management - UK Eutrophication & Acidification Network](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ed9c6685-3f91-415b-ad46-68995e06010a): DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS
- [Land-Climate Research Programme](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-43db8f0b-15fc-4947-8ae7-9bb60c0dc63d): DESNZ

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e844b852-73b0-41f9-900f-11ffa8f20e3a-357971)