Economic Climate Monitor – Sustainability in times of a crisis and the climate consequences

COVID-19 resulted in setbacks for many social and economic sustainable development goals.For climate change it holds an opportunity – directly reducing CO2 emissions, accelerating indirect trends impacting CO2 emissions and higher determination to solve shared problems. For emerging economies, the pandemic had a disproportionately negative impact aggravated by existing structural problems and vulnerability, with feedback loops affecting their climate mitigation efforts and economic recovery ability.