Global greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5 percent as the tourism and aviation industries were shut down by COVID-19.
The coronavirus pandemic has led to the largest-ever drop in greenhouse emissions, but also led to the loss of 150 million jobs worldwide. , published in the international scientific journal PLOS ONE, examined how the global economic and environmental impacts of the pandemic are closely linked.
The drop of 4.6 per cent is the largest ever recorded in human history, dating back past the Industrial Revolution. Europe, Asia and the United States were the regions hardest hit, but the flow-on impacts of the pandemic were felt across the rest of the world.
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