Canada’s Explosive Wildfires Have Damaged a Forest Carbon Offset Project
- Media Manager
- Jun 25, 2023
- 1 min read
Bloomberg
Written By: Natasha White, and Zahra Hirji
Published: June 26th, 2023
Canada’s explosive wildfire season has already pumped millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Some of that carbon is coming from vegetation burned at a carbon offset project, highlighting the fragility of a tool the world is relying on to fight catastrophic climate change.
With Canada facing what’s on track to be its worst wildfire season on record — and climate change fueling ever more destructive blazes — climate experts and offset developers are concerned it could be a harbinger of what’s to come.
