COVID-19 pandemic lessons to facilitate future engagement in the global climate crisis

Perkins, Krystal M.; Munguía, Nora; Ellenbecker, Michael J.; Moure‐Eraso, Rafael; Velázquez, Luis

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125178

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“…To date, few researchers have considered the human behavioral responses to linkages between climate change and COVID-19 [16]. Ecker et al [17] (p. 1) conducted an experiment in which they found that prioritizing the economic crisis triggered by COVID-19 and portraying climate change as an issue that should take a "back seat", effectively reduced climate-change concerns and diminished support for mitigation efforts.…”

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Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to Examine Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Moderating Effect of COVID-19 Beliefs

2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change issues present evident interdependencies which justify the spread of connected beliefs. We examine possible changes in individuals’ pro-environmental behavior in light of this pandemic, using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) framework. A questionnaire survey was submitted to the same sample of individuals, before and during the pandemic. Our evidence, based on Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has not led to a weakening in TPB construct relationships, or in related Pro-Environmental Behavior (PEB). Conversely, through our Partial Least Squares-Multi-Group Analysis (PLS-MGA), we show that individuals with greater awareness of interdependencies between the COVID-19 and climate change exhibit both higher Intention and reinforced Pro-Environmental Behaviors. This finding reveals interesting policy implications in terms of innovative behavioral drivers that should be employed to steer public support towards climate-oriented initiatives.

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Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to Examine Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Moderating Effect of COVID-19 Beliefs

2020

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“…It was found in the study that the development and spread of COVID-19 appeared because of massive urbanization, demolition of habitat, fragile environmental change, animal trading, and global travel. In a qualitative study based on the media coverage of COVID-19 from January to June 2020, Contreras et al (2021) discussed six important lessons that can be drawn from the COVID-19 epidemic. The main lessons comprised the reduction in the usage of fossil fuel and greenhouse emissions, rapid response, sustainable environment, trust in science, the limits of rugged individualism, and the opportunity for greater change.…”

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Climate change during the COVID-19 outbreak: scoping future perspectives

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Neither war nor recession or any kind of prior disaster has been considered a prelude to the looming threat of climate change over the past era as coronavirus (hereafter COVID-19) has in only a few months. Although numerous studies have already been published on this topic, there has not been compelling evidence critically assessing the impact of COVID-19 by and on climate change. The present study fills this gap by taking a more holistic approach to elaborate factors, e.g., natural and anthropogenic factors, ocean submesoscales, radiative forces, and greenhouse gas/CO 2 emissions, that may affect climate change in a more prevalent and pronounced manner. Based on the statistical data collected from the NASA Earth Observatory, the European Space Agency, and the Global Carbon Project, the findings of this study reveal that the climate/environment has improved during COVID-19, including better environmental quality and water quality with low carbon emissions and sound pollution. In the lockdown during the epidemic, the emissions of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) significantly decreased because of the lower usage of transportation, decreased electricity demand, and halted industrial activities. The policy implications of this study suggested that keeping the climate healthy even in the post-COVID-19 era is a serious concern that needs to be addressed by investing in clean and green projects, ensuring green energy evolution, dealing with a large volume of medical waste, building health-ensuring and livable societies, and halting the funding of pollution. For governmental and regulatory bodies, these factors will provide a strong foundation to build safer, healthier, and environmentally friendly societies for generations to come.

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“…In 2020, the airline industry suffered a significant drop in passenger air transport demand, threatening many airlines' viability, especially international travel, because passengers perceived a heightened risk than domestic flight routes (Forsyth et al, 2020;Matiza, 2020). Although it is remarkable that COVID-19 led to a decrease in consumption and decarbonized the world economy (Perkins et al, 2021), these new consumption patterns occurred against the backdrop of the millions that lost their jobs and, as a consequence, drastically affected world economies (Duffin, 2020).…”

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Reflections on Sustainable Consumption in the Context of COVID-19

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly disrupted progress toward many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Accordingly, the UN has underscored the need to design short-term responses to halt and reverse the adverse effects of the current COVID-19 crisis. However, some researchers have scrutinized the feasibility and note the potential counterproductivity of particular SDGs in our post-pandemic world. This perspective paper holds a more hopeful outlook and contends that the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to prompt efforts to carry out the UN's 2030 Agenda. In this regard, this paper engages the theme of “sustainable consumption” in the context of COVD-19 by discussing two perspectives or bodies of work-supply chain sustainability and post-colonial theory. Supply chain sustainability is discussed as one such promising, though underutilized practice, that could potentially catalyze progress toward SDG 12. Likewise, post-colonial theory, a body of knowledge rarely drawn upon in sustainable consumption and SDG conversations, is presented to call attention to some of the gaps in the orthodoxy of sustainable consumption approaches, practices, and theoretical perspectives. This perspective paper's novelty lies in the fact that it calls attention to the promise of the SDGs and the limits of our current theoretical frameworks related to sustainable consumption. For these reasons, these bodies of work can provoke additional questions and avenues for future research.

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COVID-19 pandemic lessons to facilitate future engagement in the global climate crisis

Cited by 61 publications

References 37 publications

Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to Examine Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Moderating Effect of COVID-19 Beliefs

Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to Examine Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Moderating Effect of COVID-19 Beliefs

Climate change during the COVID-19 outbreak: scoping future perspectives

Reflections on Sustainable Consumption in the Context of COVID-19

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