The fires tearing through forests in southwest France, around the region of Bordeaux, and in central Spain around the capital Madrid have been some of the worst in decades. Climate change which has brought successive heatwaves and a lack of rain has added fuel to the fires that are raging across parched grass and woodlands. With huge amounts of CO2 released and land left blackened the question is what to do now, once these wildfires are extinguished. To get more insight, FRANCE 24’s Eve Irvine is joined by Alexander Held, Senior expert at the World Fire and Climate Resilience Initiative at the European Forest Institute.
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