Nairobi, 23 February, 2022 – Climate change and land-use change are projected to make wildfires more frequent and intense, with a global increase of extreme fires of up to 14 per cent by 2030, 30 per cent by the end of 2050 and 50 per cent by the end of the century, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and GRID-Arendal.
Experts warn that numbers of wildfires will rise by 50% by 2100
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The inaugural "State of Wildfires" report, published in the journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD), offers a comprehensive analysis of global wildfires in 2023-24.
Forests around world being changed from carbon sinks into carbon sources, making it harder to slow global heating
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