How COVID-19 changed the climate conversation
Jul 15, 2020
4 minutes
The theoretical has suddenly become real. Climate activists’ hopeful pleas for dramatic cuts in carbon emissions are now in front of hard-nosed policymakers, as governments worldwide perform a hard reboot of their pandemic-frozen economies.
It’s a moment without precedent. The world economy hasn’t just slowed, as it did after the 2008 financial crash. It has come close to closing down, and governments are budgeting trillions of dollars for recovery. The key question now is priorities: where the money will go.
Will it go green?
The answer, so far, is decidedly mixed. With tens of millions out of work as a result of
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