With a hope to launch the Initiative in 2024, participants at the Development Meeting, including the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection; the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, the Nature and Food Quality; UNEP Global Peatlands Initiative discussed the next steps for the EPI, which will grow and change over time according to the needs and challenges for Europe's peatlands.