Impact of Covid-19 and climate change


FOR the first time in a long time, two global phenomena came together with devastating destruction. Both Covid-19 and greenhouses gas (GHG) emissions don’t care for borders. Both put the world’s poor and vulnerable at greater risk than all else.

Both also interact – shutting down swathes of the economy and causing life as we know it to a virtual standstill. But it led to huge cuts in worldwide GHG daily emissions estimated at 17% below what they were in the same first week of April, last year.

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