Andrey Sirin is the Scientific Advisor of the Peatland Protection and Restoration Centre of the Institute of Forest Science Russian Academy of Sciences (https://ilan.ras.ru). Graduated from the Faculty of Geography of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Dr. (geography, hydrology), Dr. Sci. (biology, ecology). With more than 40 years’ experience in peatland studies, he has broad interest in peatland forestry, peatland ecology including hydrology, carbon and greenhouse gases balances, climate change mitigation and adaptation, inventory, monitoring and management, protection and restoration. Participated in preparation of the main documents of the IPCC, CBD on peatlands, and currently is the scientific expert of the STPR of the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.