Environmental perspective of COVID-19

Saadat, Saeida; Rawtani, Deepak; Hussain, Chaudhery Mustansar

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138870

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“…Finally, the pandemic has resulted in important indirect effects on the environment. In particular, highly increased medical waste is having negative effect on land lls and marine environments 30,31 .…”

Section: Negative Impacts Of the Covid-19 Crisis On The Sdgsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Development in the Wake of Covid-19

Nerini

Henrysson

Swain

et al. 2020

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The ´decade of action´ to achieve the ambitious 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 is off to a very challenging start. With progress on the achievement of most SDGs already lagging behind even before the Covid-19 crisis – our analysis finds that the pandemic negatively affects the achievement of 144 targets (almost 90%) of the SDGs. However, 66 targets (ca. 40%) could potentially benefit from the changes spurred by the crisis, given that the appropriate decisions are made. Holistic response and leadership are needed to ensure an inclusive economic recovery while protecting the environment. Furthermore, our analysis of the literature documents the unprecedented speed of the international community to assess the impacts of the pandemic. Future research should gather data to better understand the impacts of the pandemic locally and globally, and produce long-term analyses to inform the sustainable recovery across all SDGs.

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Section: Negative Impacts Of the Covid-19 Crisis On The Sdgsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Development in the Wake of Covid-19

Nerini

Henrysson

Swain

et al. 2020

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“…The nding of the study is not any discrete event. A few studies have already been done in environmental perspective (Saadat et al, 2020;Sharma et al, 2020;Wang and Su, 2020;Tobias et al, 2020) dew, and precipitation, etc. Similarly, Aydın et al, (2020) noted that the ozone level has increased signi cantly during the Covid-19 lockdown than pre-lockdown period which has increased the sunlight penetration.…”

Section: Aqs Of Selected Cities Based On Lockdown Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…All these aforesaid steps have been taken as preventive measures to withhold the spread of the virus and control the death rate (Saadat et al, 2020;Chinazzi et al, 2020). Such an unusual situation of the past few months has exceptionally changed the world with some unexpected consequences (Harapan et al, 2020).…”

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“…Among them, the lockdown effect has almost stopped all the economic activities, absolutely contributed to improving the environmental quality, which may offset the economic losses to some extent (Chakraborty and Maity, 2020;Muhammad et al, 2020). During the lockdown, the production interregnum of industries, restriction on transportation and public traveling system, and shut down of other business have resulted in a sharp and sudden drop in global carbon emission (Wang and Su, 2020;Chakraborty and Maity, 2020;Saadat et al, 2020). It has also been seen that due to production, manufacturing, and transportation break during the lockdown global demand for oil and coal has declined to its lowest level (Wang and Su, 2020;Muhammad et al, 2020).…”

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“…The emission of NO 2 from the heavy industrial area of North and Northeast China was signi cantly reduced just after the rst week of lockdown (European Space Agency, 2020). Almost 50% drop in air pollution in New York City (USA) was observed at the same time last year after the measures were implemented to control the spread of the virus (Saadat et al, 2020).…”

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Modelling the Global Air Quality Conditions in Perspective of COVID-19 Stimulated Lockdown Periods Using Remote Sensing Data

Talukdar¹,

Mahato²,

Pal³

et al. 2020

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COVID-19 outbreak across the world has invited forced lockdown conditions, which causes a huge economic landslide. But it has brought an opportunity for restoring the environment of its own which may cause ecosystem well-being. Focusing on the second issue, the present work has intended to explore the streams of air quality change based on some quality components and develop a multi-date air quality state (AQS) model for the world in consequence of emergency lockdown. It is very clear from the result that amid lockdown aerosol optical depth (AOD), sulfur dioxide (SO2), ozone, carbon monoxide (CO), particulate matter (PM2.5), and black carbon (BC) concentration level have been significantly reduced in fully lockdown countries. AQS is considerably improved amid lockdown. Hotspots of COVID-19 were under unhealthy, very unhealthy air quality class in pre lockdown condition, but amid lockdown, these countries have been shifted to good and moderate healthy air quality classes

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