“…Nevertheless, such allocations may not be adequate in regions exposed to increasing wildfire extremes (Badgley et al, 2022;Anderegg et al, 2024). Despite these challenges, C markets also provide opportunities to unlock the resources required to improve management of fire prone ecosystems, like savannas (Russel- Smith et al, 2015) and temperate forests (Nikolakis et al, 2022) with benefits for ecosystems, climate, and local communities. For these markets to be effective and scale, they require accurate and transparent monitoring systems, enabling science based fire management, accurate accounting of C losses from fire, and assessment of reversal risk from fire.…”