Science: A COVID-19 recovery for climate
“Leveraging COVID-19 recovery programs to simultaneously advance the climate agenda presents a strategic opportunity to transition toward a more sustainable post–COVID-19 world.” write Daniel Rosenbloom (University of Toronto) and Jochen Markard (SusTec) in the editorial of this week’s Science Magazine.
This editorial argues for the importance of leveraging the COVID-19 recovery to advance the low-carbon transition. It offers two main strategies: (1) stimulating innovation to build the low-carbon systems of the future; and (2) harnessing disruption to break carbon lock-in. Full text freely available for Download download
A more detailed policy brief on this topic will appear in the coming days in Download Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy