How fire management can be cost-effective way to limit emissions
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Scientists are discovering how fire management practices can not only prevent explosive megafires but also help curb climate change.
Scientists are discovering how fire management practices can not only prevent explosive megafires but also help curb climate change.
Efficient fire management in North American forests may offer a cost-effective way to limit carbon emissions, according to a study published Wednesday in Science Advances.
Wildfires within North American boreal forests alone have been found to contribute about 3% of global carbon dioxide emissions within the climate budget designed to limit warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, the conservative model outlined within the Paris Agreement. That number presents "an enormous threat to climate change mitigation goals," the authors wrote.
Even more alarming is that forest fires around the world accounted for up to 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 and 2020, according to a study published in the science journal Frontiers in February.
