Environmental Outcomes of Covid-19 Epidemic

Environmental Outcomes of Covid-19 Epidemic

Author Name : Dr. Nirmala Baby, Dr. B. Jothikumar

ABSTRACT

The universal disorder resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has led to several effects on the environment and climate. The Covid-19 has depressed the world’s economic system, and has the unexpected end result of reduction within the greenhouse gas emission in many highly developed and growing nations. In China, lockdowns and other measures led to a 25 percent reduction in carbon emissions and 50 percentage reduction in nitrogen oxides emissions. On the other hand, the pandemic has also supplied room for illegal sports consisting of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and poaching in Africa, hindered environmental international relations efforts, and created economic fallout that a few are expecting will gradual investment in green electricity Technology. Numerous changes in environment and waste generation resulted on the surroundings by means of COVID-19 epidemic. There was a change in world’s economic system and reduction within the greenhouse gas emission. The growing waste, clinical and medical waste, mountains of waste, eco-systems at danger and global warming are elaborately mentioned in the paper. 

Keywords:, greenhouse gas, lockdown, surroundings, waste.