Global climate change mitigation under the COVID-19 new normal

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• Prof Dabo Guan & Dr Can Cui
• Thursday 25 March 2021, 15:00-16:00
• https://zoom.us/j/94218164135.

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The global economy is facing a serious recession due to COVID -19, with implications for CO2 emissions. Here, using a global adaptive multiregional input–output model and scenarios of lockdown and fiscal counter measures, we show that global emissions from economic sectors will decrease by 3.9 to 5.6% in 5 years (2020 to 2024) compared with a no-pandemic baseline scenario (business as usual for economic growth and carbon intensity decline). Global economic interdependency via supply chains means that blocking one country’s economic activities causes the emissions of other countries to decrease even without lockdown policies. We stimulate possible post-covid recovery pathways (grey vs. green) under different fiscal stimuli packages for developed, emerging economies and low income countries, respectively.

This talk is part of the Earth2Earth series.

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