Climate Change should be Treated as an Emergency like COVID-19, Study Says


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14/07/2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency can no longer be seen as separate crises, researchers say.

Climate change should be treated with the same urgency as the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study.

The study, which was led by the Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) Centre for Climate Justice, reported concerns that resources used for the pandemic response would detract from those allocated to climate action.

It said that the recovery from COVID-19 should be integrated with tackling climate change and that the public should be able to see climate data as easily as they were able to see data on the coronavirus.

This would include real-time reporting of deaths and damage caused by adverse weather.

The research consortium included the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) along with academic partners in Africa, and it focused on the experiences of policymakers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Researchers reviewed literature, an online qualitative survey and interviews with public, private, and third-sector organisations in the Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, and South Africa.

A number of those interviewed said that climate change, "despite ultimately being more deadly than the virus", had "failed to elicit the same level of urgency" among governments and civil society.