A recent report predicts that climate change and land use change will increase the frequency and intensity of wildfires, with a global increase in wildfires of up to 50 percent by the end of the century.

A new report by the United Nations Environment Program and Grid-Arendal, a non-profit environmental communications center, entitled “Spreading like wildfire: the growing threat of unusual landscape fires”, states that there is an increased risk even for the Arctic and other regions not previously affected by wildfires. forests, indicating a global increase in wildfires of up to 14 percent by 2030, 30 percent by the end of 2050 and 50 percent by 2100.

He called for a radical change in government spending on forest fires, shifting its investments from reaction and response to prevention and preparedness, and called on governments to adopt a “ready formula to deal with fires” with two-thirds of spending allocated to planning, prevention, preparedness and recovery, and the remaining third to response.

The Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program, Inger Anderson, noted that current government responses to wildfires often put money in the wrong place.

“Emergency service workers and firefighters on the front lines who risk their lives to fight wildfires need support. We need to reduce the risk of severe wildfires by being better prepared: investing more in fire risk reduction, working with local communities, and strengthening global commitment to combat climate change,” she said. “.