Peatlands are a critical part of the Canadian landscape representing about 12% of our land area and have diverse and important ecosystem and socio-economic services. With increasing pressures from climate change, peatlands’ function as carbon stocks is a hot topic. They are also vital habitats for many threatened species, provide clean water and food, and are culturally and spiritually significant for many Indigenous communities. Peatlands and their functions are at risk from climate change impacts including drought, increasing fire severity and frequency, and permafrost thaw, and other anthropogenic disturbances such as mining, agriculture, oil and gas, development, and forestry. Restoration/reclamation, improved management, conservation, and policy may all work to lessen impacts from disturbance. In this session lead by Can-Peat: Canada’s peatlands as nature-based climate solutions, we welcome all submissions relating to the vast breadth of peatland research in Canada. This session aims to facilitate collaboration among researchers from different disciplines and highlight approaches that improve our ability to understand, monitor, and predict peatland dynamics including modelling, fieldwork, and community science.