Climate change

Axios - Canada's record 2023 wildfire season emitted so much carbon into the atmosphere that it put the country on par with the annual fossil fuel emissions of India, a new study finds. The fires burned 4% of the nation's vast forest area and demonstrated the effects extreme heat and drought have on the boreal forests that ring the Arctic. They've also illustrated the fraught politics of carbon accounting...

In just five months, Canada emitted enough carbon from wildfires in 2023 — 647 million metric tons — to be comparable to the annual fossil fuel emissions from the top 10 largest emitters.The research also notes that climate projections show an increasing tendency for extreme fire weather conditions to occur and lead to larger and more intense blazes.

The study notes that Canada does not currently report its emissions from wildfires, treating them as "natural disturbances" despite the ample evidence of how human-caused climate change is worsening these blazes."  MORE

Guardian - A handful of wealthy polluting countries led by the US are spending billions of dollars of public money on unproven climate solutions technologies that risk further delaying the transition away from fossil fuels, new analysis suggests. These governments have handed out almost $30bn in subsidies for carbon capture and fossil hydrogen over the past 40 years, with hundreds of billions potentially up for grabs through new incentives, according to a new report by Oil Change International, a non-profit tracking the cost of fossil fuels.