The Amazon and the El Niño – a firestorm in 2026

Climate agencies across the world have predicted that later this year an El Niño will start. In the Amazon, El Niño events are linked to increased temperatures and reduced rainfall, turning the rainforest into a flammable ecosystem. In this panel, we will discuss recent patterns of Amazonian forests fires, their environmental and social impacts, as well as solutions to the firestorm to come in 2026.  
 
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Hosts: Erika Berenguer (Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford) & Ane Alencar (IPAM - Amazon Environmental Research Institute)

Speakers:
Erika Berenguer (Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford)
Ane Alencar (IPAM)
Vanessa Duarte (Legal Amazon Consortium)

This work is part of the Agile Sprint project ‘How can we fireproof the Amazon?’ funded by a grant from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC; NE/W004976/1) as part of the Oxford Martin School’s Agile Initiative:
https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/
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