COVID-19: A Learning Opportunity to Improve Environmental Sustainability

Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, Laeeq Razzak Janjua and Zhang Yu

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Abstract: In just a few months, COVID-19 transformed from a dangerous regional health threat into a widespread global pandemic and economic disaster. Thus the world is expecting a great recession once again. The rapid spread of COVID-19 has had far-reaching consequences for people's daily lives in almost all parts of the world. Climate change and biodiversity depletion have now reached global boundaries; thus, human activity has surpassed Earth's capacities. Earth capacities can be explained in terms of extreme climate change. This chapter is intended to investigate the link between the outbreak of Covid-19 and its effect on environmental and society. The discussion reveals that environmental pollution is minimized as a result of global lockdown. Furthermore, our review also shows that in terms of environment, Covid-19 provide an opportunity to transform our polluted economy toward the green economy through adoption of renewable energy sources and green practices in our businesses.

Keywords: COVID-19; air pollution; climate change; carbon carpets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.93893

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