Climate-driven extreme fire danger cannot be prevented by carbon neutrality alone, study warns

A new study warns that unless atmospheric carbon is reduced immediately, future summers will become even hotter and future wildfires even more destructive. A research team led by Professor Seung-Ki Min of the Department of Environmental Engineering at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has found that merely achieving “carbon neutrality” by reducing emissions is not sufficient to significantly reduce extreme wildfire risk. The team argues that active “carbon reduction”—removing carbon dioxide already accumulated in the atmosphere—must be pursued in parallel. The study was recently published in Science Advances.

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