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Covering nearly one third of the land surface of the globe, forests make a wide range of direct and indirect contributions to human well-being. Home to most of the world's terrestrial biodiversity, they also play an essential role in climate change mitigation, removing about a quarter of the CO2 that human activities add to the atmosphere. Worldwide, millions of hectares of forests and other types of vegetation burn every year. Fire dynamics are shaped by a complex set of factors, including human activity and climate. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EPRS_BRI(2020)659353 https://youtu.be/JluwTE3Z4Zs Source: © European Union - EP