Canada produced 23% of global wildfire carbon emissions for 2023: report
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Canada's historic wildfire season is being marked by another milestone: the country produced roughly 23 per cent of global wildfire carbon emissions this year.
Canada was responsible for roughly 23 per cent of global wildfire carbon emissions in 2023, a new report has found.
Copernicus, the Earth observation component of the European Union’s space program, revealed in a report on Tuesday the country’s historic wildfire season resulted in about 480 megatonnes of carbon being produced.
That is “23 per cent of the total global wildfire carbon emissions for 2023. The global annual total estimated fire emissions (as of Dec. 10) is 2,100 megatonnes of carbon,” the organization said.
“The wildfires that Canada experienced during 2023 have generated the highest carbon emissions on record for this country by a wide margin.”
With roughly 18.5 million hectares of land burned, 2023 was the worst wildfire season ever recorded in Canada. It cooked the previous record of 7.6 million hectares scorched in 1989.
The impact was felt right across the country: British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia, the Northwest Territories and Quebec saw heavy and intense wildfires throughout their regions.
While they burned, their smoke spread not only throughout Canada, but the world.
It prompted numerous air quality warnings, spread to cities in the United States, and crossed the Atlantic Ocean into parts of Europe.
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