Coronavirus Explained: What Is the Environmental Impact of Covid-19?

We are just starting to emerge from lockdowns around the world and the toll the pandemic is taking is tragic. Clearly, a deadly virus is no way to tackle the climate and wildlife emergencies, but global carbon emissions have fallen sharply as people have needed to travel and work less, air pollution has dropped in cities and wildlife has emerged in unlikely places.

Furthermore, trillions of dollars are being mobilised to rebuild the global economy, raising the question: can we build back better? Is a sustainable new economy that stops global heating and the destruction of the natural world possible? What would it look like and how do we get there?

In the next of our Coronavirus explained series, Guardian environment editor Damian Carrington will be talking to Richard Black from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, and Guardian environment correspondent Fiona Harvey.

Running time: 60 minutes

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