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Similitudes and differences between global warming and COVID-19 crises – Lessons to be learned

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence, 2021

In this article, we try to see if there is a direct link between this health crisis and global warming and if there is something to take away and use at a different level. We are living in complicated times, a sanitary crisis which is followed by an economic one, the amplitude is remained to see, but clearly, both are very damaging. In both cases, being able to rely on the best available scientific knowledge is essential for decision-making. But these cases are quite different because in the case of climate change, apparently, the solution consists in embracing a new social, economic, and energy model. Unfortunately, this aspect is missing from the measures aimed to slow down the COVID-19 pandemic. If certain decisions taken to solve the pandemic seem initially to be directed through the direction of climate protection, others seem rather to going in the opposite direction, so there is no immediate equivalence from one problem to another, and we should not mislead ourselves about po...

Climate change during the COVID-19 outbreak: scoping future perspectives

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Neither war nor recession or any kind of prior disaster has been considered a prelude to the looming threat of climate change over the past era as coronavirus (hereafter COVID-19) has in only a few months. Although numerous studies have already been published on this topic, there has not been compelling evidence critically assessing the impact of COVID-19 by and on climate change. The present study fills this gap by taking a more holistic approach to elaborate factors, e.g., natural and anthropogenic factors, ocean submesoscales, radiative forces, and greenhouse gas/CO 2 emissions, that may affect climate change in a more prevalent and pronounced manner. Based on the statistical data collected from the NASA Earth Observatory, the European Space Agency, and the Global Carbon Project, the findings of this study reveal that the climate/environment has improved during COVID-19, including better environmental quality and water quality with low carbon emissions and sound pollution. In the lockdown during the epidemic, the emissions of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) and carbon dioxide (CO 2) significantly decreased because of the lower usage of transportation, decreased electricity demand, and halted industrial activities. The policy implications of this study suggested that keeping the climate healthy even in the post-COVID-19 era is a serious concern that needs to be addressed by investing in clean and green projects, ensuring green energy evolution, dealing with a large volume of medical waste, building health-ensuring and livable societies, and halting the funding of pollution. For governmental and regulatory bodies, these factors will provide a strong foundation to build safer, healthier, and environmentally friendly societies for generations to come. Keywords Coronavirus (COVID-19). Climate change. Post-COVID-19 era. NO 2 and CO 2 emission * Muhammad Usman

COVID-19 Pandemic and Climate Change Crisis: A Systemic Review

Texila International Journal of Public Health, 2020

This review study aims at discussing about the linkage between health and the environment. Climate change and the loss of biodiversity can stimulate illnesses to spread. Long-term exposure of air pollutants cause chronic lung and heart diseases that make viruses like COVID-19 even more dangerous. The need for more natural resources has forced humans to encroach on various natural habitats and expose themselves to yet unknown pathogens which is responsible for COVID-19 and other outbreaks. Lockdowns across the world due to prevent the COVID-19 transmission have already resulted in a significant drop in greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants. In China, for instance, the lockdown caused carbon dioxide to drop by at least 25 percent and nitrogen dioxide by 37 percent. It was a systemic review study regarding the relationship between COVID-19 and climate change. We gather total 16 articles and newsletters related to COVID-19 and climate change using different search portal like PubMed, Google Scholar, Nature, and Lancet. After proper review only 12 articles which were related to this study were taken for this systemic review purpose. Although both COVID-19 and climate change have proven to be deadly for humans, governments of different countries haven't seen them as separate and unconnected phenomena and have therefore responded collectively to them.

Covid 19 And Its Implications on Climatic Change - A Review

The Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government, 2021

COVID 19 is due to SARS-CoV2 and has a vital role as a causative agent of a potentially fatal disease which targets the human respiratory system. Generalized additive models are used to explore the effect of diurnal temperature, humidity on COVID 19. COVID 19 has played a crucial role in revitalizing the Earth causing enticed changes worldwide. Efforts have been made to prioritize investments for adopting a shift to cleaner energy alternatives, thereby sustaining human lives. COVID 19 has a positive impact on the global climatic conditions making it favorable for the inhabitants. There is a significant reduction in the level of greenhouse gas emissions, the use of fossil fuels, coal, non-renewable resources, relative humidity, air pollution. The global calamity has led to a serious threat to human lives. To control the pandemic, special attention and efforts are taken to protect the person-to-person transmission. Social distancing must be maintained to prevent the spread of the dise...

COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Tale of Two Global Problems

Sustainability

In this paper, we examine the similarities and the differences between two global problems, the coronavirus pandemic and climate change, and the extent to which the experience with the COVID-19 pandemic can be of use for tackling climate change. We show that both problems share the same microeconomic foundations, involving an overprovision of a global public bad. In addition, they entail externalities whose correction comes at very high economic and social costs. We leverage on a well-established problem such as climate change that has been studied for several years now, to highlight the common traits with the COVID-19 pandemic, but also important differences. The COVID-19 crisis is itself a reality check for climate policy, international governance and prevention in general. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic is a mock laboratory of climate change, where the time scale of unfolding events is reduced from decades to days. While the former is often measured in days, weeks, months, years, ...

Understanding the Correlation between Climate Change and the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis

Asan Issue Brief 2021-26(S), 2021

Facing the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change is also drawing attention as a major variable that affects the outbreak and spread of infectious diseases. In particular, after the introduction of empirical studies on the correlation between the emergence of COVID-19 and climate change, the public’s interest is growing even more. It may be desirable that public attention to climate change, which could be more serious than any other global crises, is raised even through the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. However, media reports or environmental activists’ hasty conclusion based on insufficient evidence and limited empirical studies that climate change is the major cause of the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic is worrisome in that it could reduce the nature of complex correlation between the two threats to simple and direct causal relations. Studies that have recently drawn public attention to the link between the two global crises are meaningful as an academic effort to understand the devastating knock-on effects of climate change on other crises, rather than actually identifying the cause of the pandemic. The causal interactions of variables affecting the emergence of crisis situations, such as pandemics, do not have a unilinear structure. In emerging security areas such as pandemics caused by unknown infectious diseases, the correlation, or reciprocal relationship, of crisis outbreaks is more complex and linked to more variables that should be considered. Climate change is a mega-trend of the present era, which has diverse effects on virtually all human activities, ecosystems, and even the emergence of infectious diseases. It, however, should be noted that the outbreak and spread of various infectious diseases began with the beginning of human history, which was far ahead of the 1990s when the global average CO2 concentration rate in the atmosphere exceeded 350ppm and the loss and damage from climate change became serious as many experts had warned. Although unexpected changes in the ecological environment caused by climate change will affect the outbreak and spread of EIDs, the coevolution between humans and infectious diseases provides an understanding that the emergence of infectious diseases are not the dependent variables of climate change. The facts that all individuals around the world would be subject to the threats, that the traditional concept for a role of states in terms of political and economic characteristics would be inappropriate to solve and understand the threats, that the nature of the threats could be unclear and unable to defined, that the beginning and end of the threats would be unclear, and that we have limited knowledge and experience make it difficult for us to understand and respond to emerging security threats such as climate change and pandemics. It is urgent to solve the ongoing problem by eliminating the spread of COVID-19, but research and analysis of how our environmental changes caused by climate change have affected and are affecting other global threats should be continued afterwards.

Lessons from COVID-19 for managing transboundary climate risks and building resilience

Climate Risk Management, 2022

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