New Delhi, May 27 -- Canada's record-breaking wildfires last year released nearly three times more carbon than the country's entire economy - yet such emissions are barely accounted for in climate policy. Forests and peatlands, long considered among the planet's largest terrestrial carbon sinks, are increasingly becoming 'super' carbon emitters due to rising temperatures and the growing frequency and intensity of wildfires, a new policy brief has warned.

The report, published by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, stated that current carbon mitigation frameworks - such as carbon pricing, credit verification, and carbon market initiatives including those under the Paris Agreement - largely failed to...