> Burning forests in Russia helped produced some of the worst global emissions in recent months. The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service of the EU found that burning forests released 1.3 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide last month, the highest since the organisation began measurements in 2003.<p>> The taiga forests of Siberia pumped 970 megatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere between June and August – more than all the forests in the rest of the world put together.<p>In this light it will be interesting to see how Russian plan to offset carbon emissions with forest [0] is going to work.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/russia-wants-to-use-a-forest-bigger-than-india-to-offset-carbon" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/russia-wa...</a>