Canada's wildfires can emit more CO2 than all other sources combined.
This chart shows Canada's reported total CO2 emissions, and reported CO2 emissions and removals due to natural disturbances, from 1990-2023. Units are million tons of CO2.
Graph shows blue line for Canada's net emissions holding steady between 600 and 800 MtCO2e. There is an orange line with variation and a dashed trend line representing fire emissions that increases from negative values in 1990 to above 200 MtCO2e in 2023.
