The Fourth Meeting of the Partners of the Global Peatlands Initiative (GPI) takes place in Lima, Peru from 30 June – 2 July 2026, followed by field visits on 3–4 July. Co-hosted by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Peru's Ministry of the Environment (MINAM), it's the first time the 67-member initiative has convened in Latin America.

The meeting theme — Peatlands as livelihoods and the conditions for their conservation and sustainable management — puts a spotlight on Peru's years of work through the GPI partnership to protect and restore its peatland water-towers: the bofedales of the high Andes, the source of Lima's water and the headwaters of the Amazon, and the aguajales of the Peruvian lowlands stretching across the Amazon Basin.

Sessions run across the four GPI intervention areas: science and knowledge, policy, practice, and finance. Expect the latest on tropical peatland mapping and monitoring, peatlands in NDCs and NBSAPs, South–South and Triangular Cooperation, and resource mobilisation including carbon markets and payments for ecosystem services. Country delegations attending include Peru, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Mongolia and Indonesia.

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The meeting coordination is supported by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUKN).