Give me more … moorland! Because renatured, that is re-wetted, moorlands make excellent CO2 reservoirs, which are urgently needed to capture and store harmful greenhouse gases. We will be using the money raised by our Green Cargo service and the voluntary climate surcharges from our partners in 2025 this time to contribute a total of 140,000 euros to help fund the project “Rewetting Moor Biotopes in the Bergische Heideterasse” in North Rhine-Westfalia.
Reliable and long-term relationships are characteristic for our company. That is true of our climate projects, as well. In 2024 we decided to promote the re-wetting of a peat bog in Schleswig-Holstein, in 2025 a moorland project in Bavaria followed. As a general cargo network headquartered in Germany, our goal is to promote many such projects throughout the country in the course of time. Thus, our donation in 2026 is going to a project of the “Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland” (BUND) in North Rhine-Westfalia.
To put this into perspective: Although moorland covers only three percent of the land area worldwide, it stores around double as much carbon as the total biomass of all the forests on earth. In Germany, there is just as much carbon locked up in peat as in the forests, even though moorland only covers around five percent of the land area and forests around 30 percent. When peat in the bogs dries out and decays, it releases CO2 into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change. In North Rhine-Westfalia alone, the greenhouse gas emissions from organic soil amount to around a million tonnes of CO2 equivalents annually. These emissions can only be reduced by rewetting the moorlands.
The project “Re-wetting Moor Biotopes in the Bergische Heideterasse” is part of the Federal Government’s programme “Biological Diversity to Restore and Preserve the Ecosystem Contributions of Moors.”