Don't Burn Up: Northern peat fire emissions and the remaining carbon budget

Despite estimates of climate target’s remaining carbon budget (RCB) informing critical policy, most climate projections do not account for peatland ecosystem processes, including the contribution of current or future peatland wildfires to global carbon emissions. Here, we provide the first estimate of the carbon emissions associated with non-permafrost northern peatlands that specifically includes both wildfire combustion and post-fire carbon …