Rapidly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
#00255
Cut global greenhouse-gas emissions rapidly to limit the long-term worsening of extreme fire weather that local adaptation cannot fully offset.
Parent issue
#00227 Climate change creates hotter, drier and longer wildfire seasons
Sustainable Development Goals
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global
Description
Governments, firms and communities reduce fossil-fuel emissions and protect carbon sinks at the pace required to limit further warming.
This acts on the background climate conditions that raise wildfire risk. Benefits emerge globally and over time, so mitigation complements rather than replaces immediate risk reduction and preparedness.
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