The COVID-19 crisis could have positive effects on the climate, but for now it endangers the health of the most vulnerable populations and shows that a real paradigm shift is needed in the long term to achieve the EU’s ambition of climate neutrality by 2050, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said on Friday 20 March.
“One of the unintended outcomes of such abrupt socio-economic shocks may be extra reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Other outcomes, such as temporary reductions in...