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24.03.2020
Coronavirus, travel, resilience and sustainability
In historical perspective, COVID-19 is a relatively minor, reasonably well understood threat, which should have taken years, not weeks, to spread around the world. It is 90% less lethal and likely less infectious than SARS was in 2003. Yet today’s level of mobility is orders of magnitude beyond the optimum for best resilience, mutual understanding, global governance - causing pollution, climate crisis, unnecessary pandemics and human suffering.
bsl-blog.org/2020/03/23/coronavirus-travel-resilience-and-sustainability
Climate change news
- Policy Guidelines on Climate Change-induced Displacement in Ninewa Governorate, December 2023 - Iraq - ReliefWeb
- MSU, state collaborate to help Michigan farmers adapt to climate change - Michigan Public
- El Niño and climate change impacts slam Latin America and Caribbean in 2023 - World Meteorological Organization WMO
- US charity helps Kenyan communities build resilience to climate change - Voice of America - VOA News
- West Sumatra Bishop: Climate change provoked natural calamity - Vatican News - Deutsch
- Qatar's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Champions Nature-Based Solutions at UN Forum - environmentenergyleader.com
- Climate change impacts, risks and adaptation - European Environment Agency
- Seasonal forecasts | Copernicus - Copernicus EU
- Climate change made India's April heatwave 45 times more likely: Study - Deccan Herald
- 90% of Floridians Believe Climate Change is Happening - fau.edu