Illustration of officers extinguishing forest and land fires in Kalimantan. (Source: InvestorTrust)
Indonesia recorded the world's highest carbon emissions from forest and land fires in the period of October 8-14, 2026. Data from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) shows Indonesia's average daily emissions reached 3,174 kilotons of carbon, about three times greater than Brazil's.
Key Facts
Based on data from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) via the Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS), Indonesia's average daily carbon emissions from October 8-14, 2026 reached 3,174 kilotons of carbon (kt C).
The world's top five: Indonesia 3,174 kt C per day, Brazil 1,042 kt C, Australia 438 kt C, Mongolia 266 kt C, and Papua New Guinea 184 kt C.
Indonesia's emissions intensity was recorded at 1,688.3 kg of carbon per square kilometer per day, about 13.7 times that of Brazil.
Indonesia's emissions showed an anomaly of +1.99 standard deviations compared to the 2003-2025 historical average and ranked as the second highest for the same date period since 2003, below October 2015.
Total emissions over seven days reached about 22.2 million tons of carbon; cumulative emissions for 2026 had reached about 170 million tons of carbon by mid-October.
Fire activity hotspots are concentrated in Sumatra and Kalimantan, and scattered across Sulawesi and southern Papua; BMKG data records 23 areas in Indonesia blanketed by haze with hazardous air quality.
Indonesia's Forest Fire Emissions Highest in the World
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