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Coronavirus is very different from the climate crisis but we can still learn from it

A blog by Professor Piers Forster, Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds, with Dr Debbie Rosen, Science and Policy Manager for CONSTRAIN I’m a climate scientist not an epidemiologist, but like many of my colleagues, I’ve been reading the swiftly published papers coming...

People standing in line at an airport having their temperature checked for COVID-19 by a medical practitioner with a facial mask on

Using the COVID-19 disruption to address the climate crisis

A blog from Professor Andy Challinor (University of Leeds), Dhanush Dinesh (CCAFS), Peter Läderach (CCAFS), Marissa Van Epp (CCAFS) At first glance, the COVID-19 crisis appears to have nothing to do with the climate crisis. Over the last month, COVID-19 has eclipsed climate change and many other global challenges as...

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