Roadblocks in London are causing a huge problem (Konrad Szuminski of Ark All Saints Academy) During the Coronavirus outbreak, more people decided to refrain from driving and began walking, cycling and even scootering to work or their destinations. Researchers and scientists confirm that this has contributed to a fall in carbon dioxide emissions by 8.8% when the first six months of 2020 are compared to the same period in 2019. This a decrease of 1550 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions! What makes our study unique is the analysis of meticulously collected near-real-time data, says lead author Zhu Liu from the Department of Earth System Science at the Tsinghua University of Bejing.
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