Net Zero helps Canada to balance non-eliminable emissions from wildfires

Yingzhe Zhang

CGTN

As Canada faces one of its worst wildfire seasons in history, the country has already emitted more than 600 million tons of carbon dioxide from forest fires this year.  This is almost as much as Canada used to radiate into the atmosphere over the course of an entire year.

Like the consequence of wildfires, many greenhouse gases are difficult to eliminate in sectors such as agriculture and aviation.

Carbon residue is almost permanent, as studies show that around 30 to 70 percent of carbon dioxide remains after 500 years.

This is where the concept of Net Zero becomes important, Kirsten Ziekfeld from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says, adding that countries need to balance any emissions that they cannot eliminate by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.