15<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe pandemic may well result in more sustainable government policies as part of economic reconstruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nReferences<\/h4>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup> Pleasance C. The world shuts down: Map shows how a third of the global population – 3BILLION people – are now under coronavirus lockdown. DailyMail<\/em>. 2020 March 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n2<\/sup> COVID-19 Dashboard. In: Coronavirus Resource Center. Johns Hopkins University of Medicine<\/em>. Updated 2020 Jun 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n3<\/sup> Graham-Harrison E, Kuo L. China\u2019s coronavirus lockdown strategy: brutal but effective. The Guardian<\/em>. 2020 Mar 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n4<\/sup> Costello A. To lift the lockdown, Britain should follow China’s example. The Guardian<\/em>. 2020 Apr 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n5<\/sup> Chen A. When You\u2019re From Wuhan, the U.S. Coronavirus Outbreak Is D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu. Slate<\/em>. 2020 March 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n6<\/sup> Shretta R. The economic impact of Covid-19. University of Oxford: Coronavirus research.<\/em> 2020 April 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n7<\/sup> (8) Global Energy and CO2<\/sub> Emissions in 2020. In: Global Energy Review 2020. IEA<\/em>. 2020 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n8<\/sup> Milman O. Renewables surpass coal in US energy generation for first time in 130 years. The Guardian<\/em>. 2020 Jun 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n9<\/sup> (10) Watts J, Kommenda N. Coronavirus pandemic leading to huge drop in air pollution. The Guardian<\/em>. 2020 Mar 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n10<\/sup> (14) Roston E, Rathi A. Biggest Fall in Global Emissions Shows the Limits of Individual Action. Bloomberg Green<\/em>. 2020 May 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n11<\/sup> Cut global emissions by 7.6 percent every year for next decade to meet 1.5\u00b0C Paris target – UN report. UN Environment Programme<\/em>. 2019 Nov 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n12<\/sup> Carrington D, Kommenda N. Air pollution in China back to pre-Covid levels and Europe may follow. The Guardian<\/em>. 2020 Jun 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n13<\/sup> Morales A. Boris Johnson Sees Green Recovery Essential to U.K. Economy. Bloomberg Green<\/em>. 2020 June 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n14<\/sup> The pressure to make the post-covid rebound green. The Economist<\/em>. 2020 May 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n15<\/sup> German B. The financial meltdown\u2019s green aftermath. Axios<\/em>. 2018 Sept 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n16<\/sup> Image: NASA Earth Observatory<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March through May 2020 saw many countries enforce lockdown measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic1. Due to decreased production and mobility, global emissions reduced over this period, but according to scientists, this reduction was not significant enough to address the impacts of climate change. The Covid-19 pandemic has infected more than 6 million people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[107,110],"yoast_head":"\n
Covid-19 effect on climate change - Climate Transform<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Covid-19 effect on climate change - Climate Transform","description":"The Covid-19 effect on climate change is both direct but on the short-term, and indirect by having the potential to reshape countries more sustainably.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/covid-19-effect-on-climate-change\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Covid-19 effect on climate change - Climate Transform","og_description":"The Covid-19 effect on climate change is both direct but on the short-term, and indirect by having the potential to reshape countries more sustainably.","og_url":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/covid-19-effect-on-climate-change\/","og_site_name":"Climate Transform","article_published_time":"2020-06-16T07:45:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-04-19T09:52:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":500,"height":372,"url":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/china-coronavirus-befaft-e1611763921260.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Lila Sakata","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Lila Sakata","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/covid-19-effect-on-climate-change\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/covid-19-effect-on-climate-change\/"},"author":{"name":"Lila Sakata","@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/#\/schema\/person\/096b162f41a3e254bd2fc9ddbf5de2c7"},"headline":"Covid-19 effect on climate change","datePublished":"2020-06-16T07:45:21+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-19T09:52:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/covid-19-effect-on-climate-change\/"},"wordCount":1025,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["article","basics of climate change"],"articleSection":["Blog"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/covid-19-effect-on-climate-change\/","url":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/covid-19-effect-on-climate-change\/","name":"Covid-19 effect on climate change - Climate Transform","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-06-16T07:45:21+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-19T09:52:04+00:00","description":"The Covid-19 effect on climate change is both direct but on the short-term, and indirect by having the potential to reshape countries more sustainably.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/covid-19-effect-on-climate-change\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/covid-19-effect-on-climate-change\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/covid-19-effect-on-climate-change\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Covid-19 effect on climate change"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/","name":"Climate Transform","description":"We transform views about Climate solutions","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/#organization","name":"Climate Transform","url":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/","sameAs":[],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clim.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clim.png","width":400,"height":100,"caption":"Climate Transform"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/#\/schema\/person\/096b162f41a3e254bd2fc9ddbf5de2c7","name":"Lila Sakata","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b70e1a4112adacc850654123bdab05c5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b70e1a4112adacc850654123bdab05c5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Lila Sakata"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}