Fighting fire with fire for a sustainable future

Emissions reduction in Savannas across the globe, inspired by traditional fire management

Maki Planet Systems (MPS) is a climate tech company working to scale the practice of Savanna Fire Management globally to reduce carbon emissions and preserve the world's savanna landscapes and forests.

Our innovative approach brings the latest science and technology together with Indigenous Australian practices and traditional knowledge. We promote nature based solutions and techniques to prevent combat wildfires, reduce emissions, and remove carbon from the atmosphere. Our impact is measurable and verifiable on continental scales through rigorous fire monitoring and measurement.

We are working in partnership with the International Savanna Fire Management Institute on a methodology to quantify carbon removals and avoidance from the practice of traditional fire management, driving rapid scale of this practice worldwide.

Maki Planet Systems is a subsidiary of Corporate Carbon Group - one of Australia’s leading carbon abatement project developers and owners who has been engaged in the carbon farming industry in Australia from the very beginning.

Combining First Nations traditional ecological knowledge with modern technology, our team has developed a comprehensive approach to Savanna Fire Management over the past decade.

We conduct early dry season "cool" burns, creating mosaic and rotational fuel reduction patterns, establishing firebreaks, and employing adaptive firefighting techniques which decrease the risk of destructive and high emitting fires later in the dry season.

Savanna Fire Management has a range of benefits across culture, environment, society, and the economy. By reducing the extent and severity of wildfires, we not only mitigate emissions but increase the potential for landscapes to retain more carbon.

This environmentally conscious strategy not only preserves traditional knowledge and strengthens cultural ties to the land, but also enhances biodiversity. This approach offers meaningful impacts for indigenous and traditional communities, improving their livelihoods.

Savanna ecosystems cover 1/6 of the Earth's land surface and support 10 per cent of the global population. However, they also contribute significantly to carbon emissions, wildfires, and economic losses.

Climate change is predicted to make this worse.

Traditional fire management has been used for thousands of years in Australia and other places around the world. Combined with modern fire fighting equipment, satellite measurement, AI and machine learning we are able to harness this knowledge to scale the practice and have global impact.

But for many, fire is most often seen as a threat. We need to overcome this mindset to harness its benefits at scale, and we believe the experience and knowledge from Australia can be universally applied.

Globally, the opportunity is to reduce emissions by 100 mtCO2-e/yr. That’s the equivalent to the annual emissions of over 21 million passenger cars.