Wildfires create 20 per cent of global carbon emissions –
Wildfires create 20 per cent of global carbon emissions and the figure will rise to 30% by the end of the century, according to Dryad Networks. Wildfires are wrongly categorised as natural disasters and therefore not included in global carbon emissions reporting, despite the fact that 80 per cent are caused by humans and the fact that there is much more governments can do to prevent them. The extent of wildfire emissions is often miscalculated or underestimated. Wildfires are consistently discounted from countries’ CO2 emissions reporting as they’re written off as carbon...