Landscape and a completely empty highway without cars Zdenek Kajzr/Getty Images/iStock
AT THE height of the first wave of coronavirus lockdowns, we commented here on the falls in pollution and carbon emissions because of car-free roads and plane-free skies. We also warned that “we must be realistic that this will have little if any long-term effect on global warming“.
Five months on, and the scores are on the doors. Global emissions are indeed more or less back to where they were before the pandemic. Meanwhile, more valuable time has been lost in creating a workable plan to restrict global…
