Climate stabilization: Lessons from the pandemic
Monday, August 17, 2020 - 08:31
in Earth & Climate
The dynamics of the current COVID-19 pandemic could offer valuable insights for the efforts to mitigate climate change. Highlighting the parallels between the global health and the climate emergency, a team of researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has analyzed what policy makers and citizens can learn from the corona outbreak and how to apply it to the global effort of reducing CO2 emissions. Their proposal: A Climate coronavirus Contract that unites the younger and the older generations.