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Due to the pandemic's impact on travel and industry, the planet as a whole experienced a decrease in air pollution. [32] [33] [34] A reduction in air pollution mitigated both climate change and COVID-19 risks, but it has not yet been established which types of air pollution, if any, are common risks to both. [35]
As a direct consequence of the pandemic, an 8% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions was projected for 2020, which would be the largest 1-year decline on record. [22] However, this reduction was a result of reduced economic activity, not the decarbonization of the economy required to respond to climate change. [22]
Following warnings and increased preparedness in the 2000s, the 2009 swine flu pandemic led to rapid anti-pandemic reactions amongst the Western countries. The H1N1/09 virus strain with mild symptoms and low lethality eventually led to a backlash over public sector over-reactiveness, spending, and the high cost of the 2009 flu vaccine.
In just a few months, the coronavirus has infected 19 million worldwide and killed more than 710,000, with nearly 5 million cases in the U.S. and 159,864 deaths. “Climate change will make entire ...
"The reality is that if we continue to see spread at the rate that we're seeing it now or something higher than what we're seeing now, by the end of the year upwards of 20 percent of the ...
The spike in 2021 comes after coronavirus-related restrictions led to the largest annual drop in CO2 emissions in 2020, with a 6% decline. That led to calls for governments to put sustainability ...
10 January: a summary from the Copernicus Climate Change Service stated that 2024 was the warmest year since records began in 1850, with an average global surface temperature reaching 1.6 °C above pre-industrial levels, surpassing for the first time the 1.5 °C warming target set by the Paris Agreement.
Climate change's increase of water temperatures intensified peak wind speeds in all eleven 2024 Atlantic hurricanes. [16] 1 July (reported): Hurricane Beryl, the earliest Category 5 storm on record in the Atlantic, [17] broke records for rapid intensification (65 mph in 24 hours), overall strength, and location for June. [18]