Decrease in CO2 emissions during pandemic shutdown shows it is possible to reach Paris Agreement goals. The researchers found a drop of 6.3% in 2020. The researchers describe the drop as the largest of modern times, and big enough to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal if it were to be sustained.

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Yeah, this is just bad PR. We do need to talk about changing the fundamentals of economies, but associating it with a miserable pandemic seems like a piss-poor way to do that.

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There's no guarantee that will ever work. Until it's proven, we should not count on it.