Coronavirus: UAE minister warns of ‘revenge pollution’ as businesses reopen – The National

Coronavirus: UAE minister warns of ‘revenge pollution’ as businesses reopen – The National

Coronavirus: UAE minister warns of 'revenge pollution' as businesses reopen. Stimulus packages should focus on a 'low-carbon future', says Dr Zeyoudi, co-author of a paper on the impact of Covid-19. "The change in human behaviour, supply chains and transport due to Covid-19 lockdowns has already resulted in positive effects on the climate," the authors wrote.. If governments decide to go back to the status quo after the end of the outbreak, and ignore the risks of climate change, transition to cleaner energy will slow down.. The new paper, called A New Baseline for Greater Collective Action: The Impact of Covid-19 on our Environment and Climate Change, was published on May 10.. Researchers warned climate change had the same "negative effect on human beings" as the pandemic, but that its implications were "harsher" and "possibly irreversible", with hundreds of millions of people already affected.. Dr Ajay Gambhir, of The Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, co-authored a briefing paper for the UK government which encouraged a "net-zero emissions economic recovery" following the outbreak.. "There's a danger from an environmental perspective that they might be tempted in various parts of the world to support industries that are saying, 'We