Looking to learn more about how Covid-19 is interacting with our environmental challenges?
AWARE has compiled resources from around the world informing us about what is happening right now and what the Covid-19 crisis means for the fight to reduce the effects of climate change.
Essential Reads
Environmental Defence Canada: Answers to 5 more questions about COVID-19 and the environment
The Guardian: Will the coronavirus kill the oil industry and help save the climate?
U Waterloo: The politics of leaving fossil fuels in the ground
350.org: 5 Principles for Just Covid-19 Relief and Stimulus
World Resources Institute: Key Investments Can Build Resilience to Pandemics and Climate Change
McKinsey & Co: Addressing climate change in a post-pandemic world
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: First, do no harm—and carbon pricing won’t
Further Reading
BBC: Climate change: Could the coronavirus crisis spur a green recovery?
UN News: First Person: COVID-19 is not a silver lining for the climate, says UN Environment chief
Climate Home News: IMF chief: $1 trillion post-coronavirus stimulus must tackle climate crisis
Corporate Knights: Building Back Better with a green renovation wave
The Guardian: The Covid-19 crisis creates a chance to reset economies on a sustainable footing
The Guardian: Milan announces ambitious scheme to reduce car use after lockdown
The Guardian: It’s time to let the fossil fuel industry die
EcoWatch: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Set for Record Decline Due to Coronavirus Lockdowns
Outside Magazine: Op-Ed: The Stimulus Package Is a Climate Disaster
BBC News: Coronavirus recovery plan ‘must tackle climate change’
Balsillie School of International Affairs: After the Virus: Building Back Better?
Al Jazeera: The coronavirus outbreak is part of the climate change crisis
Canada Specific
Maclean’s: What Canada’s COVID-19 economic stimulus plan should look like when it comes
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: When Disasters Collide
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: When Disasters Collide: The Sequel
The Narwhal: Three ways Canada’s coronavirus funds can address both economic and climate emergencies
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: Climate Change vs. Economic Growth in a Time of Crisis
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: Climate policy in the long shadow of COVID-19
The Tyee: What Kind of Recovery Economy Is BC Planning to Build?
Essential Reads
Grist: Climate in the Time of Coronavirus
Scientific American: What Could Warming Mean for Pathogens like Coronavirus?
World Economic Forum: Global Risks Report 2020
The Conversation: Coronavirus response proves the world can act on climate change
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: When Disasters Collide
Further Reading
Bloomberg Green: A Pandemic That Cleared Skies and Halted Cities Isn’t Slowing Global Warming
BBC: Climate change and coronavirus: Five charts about the biggest carbon crash
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: When Disasters Collide: The Sequel
Maclean’s: Why COVID-19 gets more government attention than the climate catastrophe
Swiss Re: Pandemics in a changing climate – Evolving risk and the global response
The Guardian: Covid-19 is nature’s wake-up call to complacent civilisation
Environmental Health News: Coronavirus, climate change, and the environment
Global Change.gov: Climate and Health Assessment
Word Economic Forum: The Global Risk Report 2016
World Resources Institute: Key Investments Can Build Resilience to Pandemics and Climate Change
McKinsey & Co: Addressing climate change in a post-pandemic world
PreventionWeb: Covid-19 and Climate: Multifaceted Impacts
Four Twenty Seven: The Compounding Challenges of Climate Hazards and COVID-19
The Narwhal: Coronavirus and climate change: how to save lives during crises
NY Times: Here’s How Coronavirus Could Raise Cities’ Risk for Climate Disasters
Al Jazeera: The coronavirus outbreak is part of the climate change crisis
Canada Specific
Environmental Defence Canada: Answers to 5 more questions about COVID-19 and the environment
Essential Reads
World Resources Institute: Key Investments Can Build Resilience to Pandemics and Climate Change
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: When Disasters Collide
Further Reading
Four Twenty Seven: The Compounding Challenges of Climate Hazards and COVID-19
iPolitics: Even in the face of COVID-19, climate challenges can be addressed
The Narwhal: Coronavirus and climate change: how to save lives during crises
Canada Specific
Canada’s National Observer: Let this crisis teach us that we must be prepared for the next
Essential Reads
Politico: End of the road for fossil fuel subsidies
Maclean’s: What Canada’s COVID-19 economic stimulus plan should look like when it comes
The Narwhal: Three ways Canada’s coronavirus funds can address both economic and climate emergencies
Further Reading
The Guardian: The Covid-19 crisis creates a chance to reset economies on a sustainable footing
OilPrice.com: The LNG Market Is “Imploding”
Youtube – TEDx: Why it’s Time for ‘Doughnut Economics’
Outside Magazine: Op-Ed: The Stimulus Package Is a Climate Disaster
Canada Specific
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: Climate Change vs. Economic Growth in a Time of Crisis
Essential Reads
U Waterloo: The politics of leaving fossil fuels in the ground
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: Climate policy in the long shadow of COVID-19
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: First, do no harm—and carbon pricing won’t
Climate Home News: IMF chief: $1 trillion post-coronavirus stimulus must tackle climate crisis
Further Reading
The Guardian: Climate action under duress: how Dutch were forced into emissions cuts
The Guardian: Milan announces ambitious scheme to reduce car use after lockdown
Outside Magazine: Op-Ed: The Stimulus Package Is a Climate Disaster
UN News: First Person: COVID-19 is not a silver lining for the climate, says UN Environment chief
McKinsey & Co: Addressing climate change in a post-pandemic world
Canada Specific
Maclean’s: What Canada’s COVID-19 economic stimulus plan should look like when it comes
The Narwhal: Three ways Canada’s coronavirus funds can address both economic and climate emergencies
Essential Reads
OilPrice.com: The LNG Market Is “Imploding”
EcoWatch: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Set for Record Decline Due to Coronavirus Lockdowns
Further Reading
Time Magazine: Germany, With Skies Cleared by Coronavirus Lockdown, Produces Record Solar Power
Politico: End of the road for fossil fuel subsidies
The Guardian: It’s time to let the fossil fuel industry die
The Guardian: Will the coronavirus kill the oil industry and help save the climate?
Balsillie School of International Affairs:Pandemics, Borders and Crisis in a Globalized World
Canada Specific
U Waterloo: The politics of leaving fossil fuels in the ground
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: First, do no harm—and carbon pricing won’t
Essential Reads
World Tourism Organization: Covid-19 Response
The Guardian: What is the future for travel and migration in age of Covid-19?
Canada Specific
The Pique: Tourism outlook bleak, with glimmers of hope
The Pique: B.C.’s road to recovery: Public confidence is key to B.C. tourism resurgence
Tourism Victoria: IMPACT – Sustainability, Travel, & Tourism Report
Essential Reads
Newsweek: No, the Pandemic Isn’t an Excuse to Go Back to Single-Use Plastics
EcoWatch: Plastics Industry Requests $1 Billion Bailout From Fed
Further Reading
The Intercept: Big Plastic Asks For $1 Billion Coronavirus Bailout
Upstream Solutions: Indisposable: The Safety and Future of Reuse
Think you know of a resource that we should add to this list? Contact nway@awarewhistler.org – we always like to learn more!
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