Global Energy and Climate Outlook 2020: A New Normal Beyond Covid-19

Kimon Keramidas, Florian Fosse (), Ana Diaz Vazquez, Burkhard Schade, Stephane Tchung-Ming, Matthias Weitzel, Toon Vandyck () and Krzysztof Wojtowicz ()
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Florian Fosse: European Commission - JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Ana Diaz Vazquez: European Commission - JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Toon Vandyck: European Commission - JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en

No JRC123203, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: This edition of the Global Energy and Climate Outlook (GECO 2020) puts its focus on analysing the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on the transport sector as a whole. The transport sector has suffered the greatest slump in mobility demand of the history during the lockdown period, while the oil price has plummeted. This report explores the impacts of transport activity trends that may persist in the future from the structural changes induced by the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as of policy initiatives that may be adopted as enabling measures for low-carbon transport. While greenhouse gas emissions in this “New Normal” differ significantly compared to previous projections, the emissions gap towards a 2°C pathway is closed only by some 29%, thereby stressing the need of more ambitious collective action to maintaining global temperature change to well below 2°C.

Keywords: Global Energy system; Climate Change; Transport sector; Covid-19; Green House Gas emissions; post-Covid-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-01
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