A number of the world's leading researchers and practitioners have come together to publish a letter in Global Change Biology to correct statements from the 16th International Peat Congress held in Kuching this summer, which supported the view that agricultural practices, such as oil palm plantations, on peatlands did not have a negative effect on the environment. The article has 139 authors, representing 115 government, academic, industry and non-governmental organisations from 20 countries.
