Increase in carbon dioxide emissions due to fires

Due to global warming, the average temperatures of the Earth are constantly increasing, as a result of which the glaciers are gradually melting.

According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2020 was the third warmest year on record, after 2016 and 2019.

FOREST FIRES INCREASED CARBON EMISSIONS

2021 was a year when the whole world struggled with forest fires. Severe forest fires, which were effective in many Mediterranean countries including Turkey, the USA and Russia, increased carbon dioxide emissions worldwide to record levels in July and August.

In a statement made by the EU-affiliated Copernicus Atmospheric Surveillance Center, it was recorded that severe forest fires in the northern hemisphere in July and August caused the highest carbon dioxide emission recorded since 2003, when the measurements began.

Pointing out that the fires are unusually intense and last longer than usual, the center reported that the amount of emissions they caused worldwide was estimated as 1258.8 megatons in July and 1348.6 megatons in August.

MOST EMISSIONS ARE IN USA AND RUSSIA

More than half of the emissions from fires worldwide in July and August came from fires in the US and Russia's Siberia region.

of Russia; It was recorded that it caused 970 megaton emissions alone, especially in the Yakutia region and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

Severe forest fires caused loss of life and damage in these regions as well as in Mediterranean countries such as Turkey, Greece, Spain, France and Italy.