COVID-19 and the environment (Document)
by FS Luxembourg | Mar 16, 2023
| Title |
COVID-19 and the environment |
| Organizers |
Directorate-General for Environment (European Commission) , VVA |
| Year of adaptation |
2022 |
| Description |
Since early 2020, the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), known as COVID-19 (first detected at the end of 2019), has hit societies worldwide, unsparingly, causing massive impacts on people’s lives: our health, activities, livelihoods, societies and economies. However, over the course of the pandemic, COVID-19 is not the only crisis our human and planetary systems have been dealing with. While the pandemic has been progressing, the world has simultaneously been undergoing other existing crises: those of biodiversity loss, loss of environmental health and rapid climate changes, associated with resource use, land-use changes and ongoing emission of carbon into the atmosphere. A growing world population and encroachment into areas of high biodiversity and microbial diversity, often in search of food, minerals or for farming purposes has meant that habitats and species are increasingly under pressure from human activities (IPBES, 2020). |
| Link to the source |
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/d9a15ec3-1ea2-11ed-8fa0-01aa75ed71a1 |
