The president of the World Meteorological Organization said that the Corona virus pandemic will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 6% this year, which will be the largest annual decline since the Second World War.
“This crisis has had an impact on greenhouse gas emissions,” said Petteri Talas, head of the organization, at a hypothetical press conference in Geneva on Wednesday.
He added, “We estimate that there will be a 6% decrease in carbon emissions this year due to a lack of transportation and industrial energy emissions.”
Due to the outbreak of the virus in most parts of the world, many countries have taken restrictive measures in the framework of combating the spread and spread of Corona, imposing public isolation and preventing movement except at certain hours and some preventing it entirely except in cases of extreme necessity, and closed stores and public centers and some government departments, as well as movements Internal movement, travel and airport movement as a precautionary measure, with the exception of the necessary ones, which, according to experts, contributed to alleviating the manifestations of the pollution unit in many countries of the world.
Source: Agencies
