The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released guidance on Friday with updated recommendations to help countries cope with severe wildfires.
The document, “Voluntary Guidelines for Integrated Fire Management: Principles and Strategic Actions,” updates the UN agency’s 20-year-old guidelines and includes new recommendations “to address the challenges posed by the current climate crisis,” the organization said in a statement.
Extreme wildfires are expected to become about 50% more frequent by the end of the century, and environmental changes linked to climate change, such as more frequent droughts, higher temperatures and stronger winds, “will likely lead to hotter, drier and longer fire seasons.”
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