The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on climate change and air quality: four country case studies
Samani, Pouya ; García-Velásquez, Carlos ; Fleury, Perine ; van der Meer, Yvonne
2021
4
e9
1-15
epidemic disease ; environmental pollution ; climate change ; health ; air pollution
Colombia ; France ; Netherlands ; Portugal
Environment
https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2021.4
English
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"To decrease the negative impacts of the coronavirus outbreak on human health, governments have implemented wide-ranging control measures. Moreover, they were urged to tackle a new challenge in energy policies to supply a new form of demand derived from new lifestyles of citizens and different energy consumption patterns. This article investigates the impacts of these changes on climate change and human health (due to air pollution) as a challenge for both citizens and governments in four countries: Colombia, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal."
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