Coronavirus

The response to the Covid 19 Emergency is influencing the response to the Climate Emergency (and mostly in a good way).

Christina Figureres wrote in the Guardian of June 1st about how many international institutions and corporate leaders are learning the lesson of governmental responses to Covid 19 to call for ambitious green economic stimulus packages.

Now we know what an emergency looks like

When the government declared a climate emergency last year many of us cried Yay!, and Huzzah! and Bravo! and Jolly good show old bean! but then we waited, and we waited, and we waited, and then politics went back to what it was before, which was Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit …

Avoiding a shock to the system

What has the Coronavirus taught us about protecting the climate?