{"id":7176,"date":"2019-12-16T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T05:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:46","slug":"smart-management-of-wildfires-can-help-curb-global-heating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/16\/smart-management-of-wildfires-can-help-curb-global-heating\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Management Of Wildfires Can Help Curb Global Heating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By UN Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extensive\nwildfire disasters, such as recently reported in Australia, Indonesia and the\nUnited States, adversely affect communities, economies and ecosystems. More\ngenerally, they contribute to air pollution and global warming, and indicate\nthat existing mechanisms to deal with wildfire, centered around disaster risk\nmanagement, are insufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carbon\ndioxide (CO2) and other emissions from peatland and forest wildfires contribute\nsubstantially to the global greenhouse effect, thus making floods and droughts\nmore likely to occur. They also produce health-damaging smoke particles and\nblack carbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smoke\nparticles reduce solar radiation absorbed by the atmosphere during fires or burning\nseasons. This can generate significant regional climate effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black carbon in smoke particles can lead to warming in the middle and lower atmosphere, leading to more unpredictable weather patterns.\u00a0 Deposits of black carbon on snow make the snow less able to reflect sunlight back into space, further warming the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/smart-management-wildfires-can-help-curb-global-heating\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Extensive wildfire disasters, such as recently reported in Australia, Indonesia and the United States, adversely affect communities, economies and ecosystems. More generally, they contribute to air pollution&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}