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24.03.2020
Coronavirus, travel, resilience and sustainability
In historical perspective, COVID-19 is a relatively minor, reasonably well understood threat, which should have taken years, not weeks, to spread around the world. It is 90% less lethal and likely less infectious than SARS was in 2003. Yet today’s level of mobility is orders of magnitude beyond the optimum for best resilience, mutual understanding, global governance - causing pollution, climate crisis, unnecessary pandemics and human suffering.
bsl-blog.org/2020/03/23/coronavirus-travel-resilience-and-sustainability
Climate change news
- Chocolate price hikes: A bittersweet reason to care about climate change - unctad
- The Climate Champions Youth Fellowship 2024 - Climate Champions - UNFCCC
- Climate Change and Environment - UNICEF
- Climate change indicators reached record levels in 2023: WMO - World Meteorological Organization WMO
- Climate change will affect how time is corrected using 'negative leap seconds' – Physics World - Physics World
- 90% of world’s wine regions threatened by climate change - First Alert 4
- Climate change impacts and adaptations of wine production - Nature
- The impacts of climate change on migration - American Friends Service Committee
- Natural climate solutions offer hope in addressing climate change - maineaudubon.org
- Climate change is turning up the heat on inflation, according to study - Euronews