Peat (other)
Peat is an accumulation of decayed vegetation matter. Peat may also refer to: * Peat (surname), people with the surname Peat *Peat Island, New South Wales, Australia *Peat Marwick, accounting firm, predecessor of KPMG See also *Peet (other) *Pete (other) Pete or Petes or ''variation'', may refer to: People * Pete (given name) * Pete (nickname) * Pete (surname) Fictional characters * Pete (Disney), a cartoon character in the ''Mickey Mouse'' universe * Pete the Pup (a.k.a. 'Petey'), a character ...

Peat
Peat (), also known as turf (), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers and is the most efficient carbon sink on the planet, because peatland plants capture carbon dioxide (CO2) naturally released from the peat, maintaining an equilibrium. In natural peatlands, the "annual rate of biomass production is greater than the rate of decomposition", but it takes "thousands of years for peatlands to develop the deposits of , which is the average depth of the boreal orthernpeatlands", which store around 415 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon (about 46 times 2019 global CO2 emissions). Globally, peat stores up to 550 Gt of carbon, 42% of all soil carbon, which exceeds the carbon stored in all other vegetation types, including the world's forests, although it covers just 3% of the land's surface. ''Sphagnum'' moss, also called peat moss, is one of th ...
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Peat (surname)
Peat is an English patronymic surname. People with the name Peat include: *Andrus Peat (born 1993), American football player * Arthur Peat (1940–2012), English footballer *Charles Peat (1892–1979), British politician and cricketer *F. David Peat (1938–2017), British physicist and author * Harold R. Peat (1893–1960), Canadian soldier and author * Jeremy Peat (born 1945), British economist *Lindsay Peat (born 1980), Irish rugby union player * Louisa Watson Small Peat (1883–1952), Irish lecturer and writer * Marion Todd Peat (born 1964), former American football player * Mark Peat (born 1982), Scottish footballer *Michael Peat (born 1949), British accountant and former private secretary to Charles, Prince of Wales * Nathan Neil Martin Peat (born 1982), English footballer *Neville Peat, New Zealand author and photographer * Stephen Peat (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player *Steve Peat (born 1974), English mountain biker *William Barclay Peat (1852–1936), British accountant ...
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Peat Island
Peat Island is a small island of approximately eight hectares in the Hawkesbury River, just north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It forms part of the suburb called Mooney Mooney and is located just upstream from the Sydney – Newcastle Freeway bridge. Other islands in the Hawkesbury River include Dangar Island, Spectacle Island (Hawkesbury River), Spectacle Island, Milson Island, Long Island (New South Wales), Long Island, and Lion Island (New South Wales), Lion Island. History Peat Island was originally known as Rabbit Island, presumably due to the fact that rabbits were being kept there as reported in 1841: "''That to the east is termed Goat Island, having many of those animals grazing thereon, the other Rabbit Island, which is numerously stocked as a Rabbit Warren.''" It was only renamed to Peat Island in 1936, due to its proximity to Peat's Ferry, which at the time was operating between Mooney Mooney and Kangaroo Point on the Hawkesbury. George Peat was an early ...
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Peat Marwick
KPMG International Limited (or simply KPMG) is a multinational professional services network, and one of the Big Four accounting organizations. Headquartered in Amstelveen, Netherlands, although incorporated in London, England, KPMG is a network of firms in 145 countries, with over 265,000 employees and has three lines of services: financial audit, tax, and advisory. Its tax and advisory services are further divided into various service groups. Over the past decade various parts of the firm's global network of affiliates have been involved in regulatory actions as well as lawsuits. The name "KPMG" stands for "Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler". The initialism was chosen when KMG (Klynveld Main Goerdeler) merged with Peat Marwick in 1987. History Early years and mergers In 1818, John Moxham opened a company in Bristol. James Grace and James Grace Jr. bought John Moxham & Co. and renamed it James Grace & Son in 1857. In 1861, Henry Grace joined James Jr. and th ...
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Peet (other)
Peet or PEET may refer to: Surname A surname of English or Dutch origin *Alfred Peet (1920–2007), a Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea **Peet's Coffee & Tea, a specialty coffee roaster and retailer founded in 1966 *Amanda Peet (born 1972), an American actress *Azalia Emma Peet (1887–1973), American missionary teacher in Japan * Bill Peet (1915–2002), an American children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios * John Peet (other), various individuals *Mal Peet (1947–2015), an English author of novels mainly for young adults * Margot Peet (1903–1995), an American painter * Stephen Peet (1920–2005), a British filmmaker *Thomas Eric Peet (1882–1934), an English Egyptologist * Wayne Peet (born 1954), an American jazz pianist and organist Given name *Peet Aren (1889–1970), Estonian artist *Peet Coombes (1952–1997), English musician * Peet Johanson (1881–1939), Estonian politician * Peet Kask (born 1948), Esto ...
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