COVID-19: Clinching the Climate Opportunity

Christian Stoll; Michael Arthur Mehling

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.003

COVID-19: Clinching the Climate Opportunity

One Earth. 2020 Oct 23;3(4):400-404. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.003. Epub 2020 Sep 22.

Authors

Christian Stoll^{1

2}, Michael Arthur Mehling²

Affiliations

¹ TUM Center for Energy Markets, TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
² MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered the largest drop in greenhouse gas emissions since World War II. Evolving mobility patterns, in particular, have shown the short-term mitigation potential of behavioral change. Sustaining such changes could abate 15% of all transportation emissions with limited net impacts on societal well-being.

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