“…During the last couple of years an increasing number of studies have been devoted to discussing the impacts of the COVDI-19 crisis from a wide range of perspectives, such as mortality causes and trends ( Arbel et al, 2022 ; Mannucci et al, 2020 ), inequalities ( Sepulveda and Brooker, 2021 ; Hawkins et al, 2020 ), environmental impacts ( Klemes et al, 2020 ; Andreoni, 2021 ), economic consequences ( Teng et al, 2022 ; Arthi and Parman, 2021 ) and commodity prices ( Liu and Chen, 2022 ; Hordofa et al, 2022 ). Extensive analyses have also been devoted to investigating the energy implications of the COVID-19 restrictions together with the potential impacts of the green recovery strategies ( Dawn et al, 2022 ; Tian et al, 2022 ).…”