This story originally appeared in Yes! www.yesmagazine.org and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
By Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz
The early months of 2020 have offered a glimpse of a world with less demand for fossil fuels as it tries to contain the coronavirus pandemic. It is a world in which renewable energy makes up a greater share of energy use, and carbon emissions are turned back to levels from a decade ago. Researchers at the Paris-based International Energy Agency, which last week released its Global Energy Review 2020, say any lasting effects “will be determined by the duration of lockdown measures and the recovery paths taken.”
