'Bloomberg highlights the potential flaw in the system here because fires are not seen as a risk to the trees.' andy_rowell for PriceofOil on how the Canadian wildfires expose the fragility of forest-based carbon offsets in a warming world:
has found that some of the millions of tons of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere from the fires have come from a “carbon offset project.”notes that this highlights the “fragility of a tool the world relies on to fight catastrophic climate change.”
Although this number may sound small, Werner Kurz, a senior research scientist in the Canadian Forest Service, toldthat the fire could have emitted up to 32,250 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. He called it “clearly not trivial.”highlights the potential flaw in the system here because fires are not seen as a risk to the trees.
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