Coronavirus: Food Supply and Climate Change
Coronavirus: Food Supply and Climate Change
There have been numerous articles and debates on social media about the correlation between Covid-19 and climate change. Here is just a small selection that you may not have seen.
FAO urges at G20 meeting protection of food supply chains amid COVID-19 threat - FAO News. The health implications of Covid-19 are frightening, but equally so has been the threat to global food security. "Preserving access to safe food and nutrition is an essential part of the health response," was the message from FAO Director-General QU Dongyu that he gave the Agriculture Ministers of the G20 countries at an Extraordinary meeting on Food Security and Nutrition this week, recommending countries to strengthen local production and shorten food supply chains.
Air pollution has dropped by 30% in the Northeast, NASA says. Are coronavirus stay-at-home orders responsible? - USA Today. Pollution reductions have been noted in many major cities across the world, especially countries hit hard by the coronavirus, including China and Italy. This article looks at the reduction in air pollution over some of of the big cities of the northeast U.S and asks could the coronavirus actually be saving lives in some parts of the world because of reduced pollution?
Coronavirus; What could lifestyle changes mean for tackling climate change? - Carbon Brief. In this article Carbon Brief asks scientists, analysts and policy experts from a range of disciplines for their thoughts on how the lifestyle changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic could affect global CO2 emissions in the short and long term.