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In this study, we show that land-use change in three SSP scenarios with optimistic, recent trends, and pessimistic assumptions leads to peatland degradation between 2020 and 2100 ranging from \u22127 to +10 Mha (\u221223% to +32%), and a continuation or even an increase in annual GHG emissions (\u22120.1 to +0.4 GtCO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    -eq yr\n                    <jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>\n                    ). In default mitigation scenarios without a specific focus on peatlands, peatland degradation is reduced due to synergies with forest protection and afforestation policies. However, this still leaves large amounts of GHG emissions from degraded peatlands unabated, causing cumulative CO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    emissions from 2020 to 2100 in an SSP2-1.5 \u00b0C scenario of 73 GtCO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    . In a mitigation scenario with dedicated peatland restoration policy, GHG emissions from degraded peatlands can be reduced to nearly zero without major effects on projected land-use dynamics. This underlines the opportunity of peatland protection and restoration for climate change mitigation and the need to synergistically combine different land-based mitigation measures. Peatland location and extent estimates vary widely in the literature; a sensitivity analysis implementing various spatial estimates shows that especially in tropical regions degraded peatland area and peatland emissions are highly uncertain. The required protection and mitigation efforts are geographically unequally distributed, with large concentrations of peatlands in Russia, Europe, North America and Indonesia (33% of emission reductions are located in Indonesia). 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