COVID-19 has led much of the world has come to a standstill. International borders were shuttered, families have maintained close to home, and governments have asked the companies to close their doors. The scale of impact do not see that in addition to carbon dioxide emissions, which are projected at 7% compared to 2019, in 2020 these values are not seen in a decade. While dramatic, this change has historical precedents. Carbon emissions since 1900 have risen sharply in total, which have been, but there are shorter conversion times. For example, the decrease of 26% in carbon dioxide emissions in the three years after the collapse of the stock market that contributed to the Great Depression. After combat aircraft factory production and bombs II emissions slowed down after the second world war have fallen by 17%. And after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, emissions fell by 3%. If there is one lesson to be learned from this story it is that when a crisis caused a drop in carbon dioxide emissions, it is unlikely to be sustainable. In subsequent years, each of these drops, but the world is not squandered profits reduce emissions, but increased production of carbon dioxide a higher level than before. Although, the level of global emissions, we are on the right now the rate reduced due COVID-19 is a slowing economy there would still need to keep emissions were reduced by 50% by 2030, if there is one global hope is to stop temperatures rise by 1.5 ° C above pre-industrial levels, which they believe necessary to avert some of the worst effects of climate change scientists. Photo copyright Narayan Maharjan-NurPhoto / Getty Images
Carbon emissions caused coronavirus pandemic drip. But that probably will not last
