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WWF Study Quantifies Human Drivers of Escalating Wildfires

Researchers warn that intensive land use fueling CO₂ emissions from record 2023 fires is creating a self-reinforcing warming cycle requiring prevention measures

Brennender Wald.
Die durch die Klimakrise beförderten Waldbrände werden weltweit immer schlimmer und heizen dabei durch hohen CO2-Ausstoß die Klimakrise selber weiter an.
Ein verheerender Flächenbrand

Overview

  • A global study published August 1 reports that 26 million hectares burned in 2023 released 8.8 billion tons of CO₂, exceeding fifteen times Germany’s annual emissions.
  • The report identifies intensive logging, land conversion, resource overuse and careless fire use as key human factors driving increasingly uncontrollable blazes.
  • Scientists forecast a 14 percent increase in extreme vegetation fires by 2030 and a 50 percent rise by the end of the century if trends persist.
  • Recent heatwaves have sparked massive wildfires across southern Europe, with major outbreaks in Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, France, Spain and Portugal.
  • The study calls for shifting resources from suppression to landscape-scale prevention through forest restoration, ending monocultures and wetland rehabilitation.