Impacts of Indonesia’s land fires of 2015 revealed: record-level carbon emissions and other impacts – what can we do?

In September and October 2015 in Indonesia, exceptionally dry conditions and the delayed onset of seasonal rains contributed to the development of extensive landscape fires. According to the recently-published research results, these fires were the second largest of the past two decades (since 1997) in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Read the blog by Markku Kanninen and Daniel Murdiyarso here