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Briefing

COVID-19 and Europe’s environment: impacts of a global pandemic

Briefing Published 05 Nov 2020 Last modified 11 Apr 2022

10 min read

Photo: © Gabriella Clare Marino on Unsplash

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on people’s lives worldwide. This briefing focuses on what we know about the short-term effects of COVID-19 on our environment, approximately six months after large parts of the world went into some degree of lockdown. It considers what can be learnt from these effects and how they might help shape decision-making in the future.