BRI’s Climate Change Program Director Tim Tear co-authored a scientific paper on savanna fire management that was published in the December issue of the journal One Earth. This scientific paper has been featured in a new story by Cool Green Science (CGS), the conservation science blog of The Nature Conservancy, entitled Savanna Fire Management Can Fund Africa’s Protected Areas.
The CGS story highlights the research in the original report that Tim and other’s conducted that “calculated the emissions abatement potential of switching from late-season fires to an early dry season fire management program across 198 protected areas from 19 African countries. Their results, published recently in One Earth, show that savanna fire management could generate between $59.6 and $655.9 million USD per year based on a market price of $5 USD per ton. At a higher price of $13 USD per ton, the revenue could be as high as $155.0 million to $1.7 billion USD per year.”
