Abstract
One of the major threats nowadays is COVID-19. Initially, people were suggested to have self-protection via staying at home and avoid unusual travel. As transmission became out of control, Lockdown implemented majorly affected countries. Lockdown stage and implemented shutdowns of industries, etc., exhibited a significant reduction in carbon emissions. Carbon emissions are often associated with burning waste, fossil fuels, crude, coal, etc., and it is harmful to the environment and human survival globally. In this chapter, carbon emission data (fossil carbon dioxide (CO2) emission data) have been collected and comparison has been done during lockdown with last year’s data. The comparison showed that emission reduced to a greater extent even more than 50% in some regions. Learnt lessons are evaluated thoroughly in this chapter that can be directed by government and private organizations post lockdown in future. The data presented in this chapter indicated a daily decrease of CO2 emission by 17% due to complete lockdown in most of the world population. As in most of the region, the lockdown has been upholding the annual decrease in CO2 emission would be only between 4.2 and 7.5% as estimated by previous researchers.
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Dasgotra, A., Singh, V.K., Manna, S., Singh, G., Tauseef, S.M., Pandey, J.K. (2021). COVID-19 and Its Impact on Carbon Dioxide Emissions. In: Chakraborty, C., Roy, S., Sharma, S., Tran, T.A. (eds) The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Green Societies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66490-9_8
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