How Covid-19 Could Actually Bring Carbon Emission Levels Down

The Covid-19 disease from the corona virus has definitely led to discover a new way of life and work, but researchers believe, the emergence of this pandemic, could actually solve the global warming problem.

According to Glen Peters, Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research – Oslo, there is a strong connection between world economic activities and carbon dioxide emissions. Fossil fuel continues to rule the roost, and therefore resultant emissions have lead to a hole in the ozone layer and disruption in many natural cycles of the Earth.

Researchers are now sharing how the pandemic could actually be resulting in the reduction in the CO2 emission levels worldwide. As social distancing becomes the norm to contain the spread of the virus, people are inbound and forced to keep off modes of transport.

“But prudent spending of economic stimulus measures, and a permanent adoption of new work behaviors, could influence how emissions evolve in future,” Peters. According to The International Energy Agency, it has been predicted that oil use would drop in 2020, and this was before an oil price war emerged between Saudi Arabia and Russia.

The whole world economy was running on full throttle till November 2019, when cases of the corona virus started to emerge at the epicenter of the outbreak. Since then, the economy has come to a grinding halt. It might just take time from June onward to come into motion, till the time a vaccine can be formulated to control the spread.

The emission-intensive airline industry,covering 2.6%of global carbon dioxide emissions (both national and international), is in free fall. Owing to a fear factor that now surrounds travel per say, political analysts believe that it may just take months, if not years, for people to return to air travel given that coronavirus may linger for several seasons.

Assuming the carbon efficiency of the global economy improves in line with the 10-year average of 2.5% per year, the OECD’s post-coronavirus growth projection implies carbon dioxide emissions may decline 0.3% in 2020 (including a leap year adjustment).

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