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The last year should be a blockbuster for action against the climate crisis. But the unexpected Covid-19 pandemic has stirred up climate choreography, postponed the major UN summit COP26 and pushed striking students off the streets. There are good reasons to believe that 2021 will be different.
Global carbon dioxide emissions fell by an unprecedented 7 percent in 2020 due to coronavirus restrictions, making a recovery very likely in 2021, says Corinne Le Quéré of the University of East Anglia in the UK.
“It is more difficult to say what the …
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