COVID-19 and climate change: Challenges or opportunities for economic recovery
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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.12.18946Keywords:
economics, climate change, emissions, COVID-19Abstract
The paper reviews the impact that COVID-19 has had on the ambitions of countries to meet the Paris Accord of reducing emissions to keep global temperature increases to below 2 ºC in this century. It notes that as nations recover from the crises, if no additional measures are taken, emissions of greenhouse gases will rise again and return to their old pathway as they did after previous crises. The paper proposes actions in the short and medium terms to build back differently this time and help meet the global climate challenge.
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