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COVID-19: Clinching the Climate Opportunity

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered the largest drop in greenhouse gas emissions since World War II. Evolving mobility patterns, in particular, have shown the short-term mitigation potential of behavioral change. Sustaining such changes could abate 15% of all transportatio...

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Autores principales: Stoll, Christian, Mehling, Michael Arthur
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7508545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34173539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.003
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spelling pubmed-75085452020-09-23 COVID-19: Clinching the Climate Opportunity Stoll, Christian Mehling, Michael Arthur One Earth Commentary The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered the largest drop in greenhouse gas emissions since World War II. Evolving mobility patterns, in particular, have shown the short-term mitigation potential of behavioral change. Sustaining such changes could abate 15% of all transportation emissions with limited net impacts on societal well-being. Elsevier Inc. 2020-10-23 2020-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7508545/ /pubmed/34173539 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.003 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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