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Fire & Climate
Carbon Sequestration
Carbon Sequestration
NRFSN number: 27449
FRAMES RCS number: 70076
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In 2024, wildfires burned a record number of forests participating in California's forest offset program, exposing the danger of relying on forests to slow climate change. While California maintains a reserve of offset credits - known as a “buffer pool” - that is intended to safeguard against such carbon losses, the growing frequency, and severity of wildfires threatens to undermine the program's environmental goals.
Citation
Badgley, Grayson. 2024. Increasingly active wildfire seasons threaten the sustainability of forest-backed carbon offset programs. Global Change Biology 30(12):e17599. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17599
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