The majority of large economies’ planned COVID-19 recovery spending is not green, putting the world on track to plough billions of dollars into reinforcing polluting industries, a report co-authored by the United Nations said on Wednesday. The COVID-19 pandemic last year triggered the largest contraction in the global economy since the Second World War, prompting .
Four Surprising Ways COVID Changed the World a Year Into the Pandemic
On 3/11/21 at 6:04 AM EST
On March 11, 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak was officially declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), more than a month after the first case was discovered in the U.S.
The world has been significantly changed over the course of the past year and in a number of ways.
Some of the changes were immediate. Unemployment rose and businesses suffered. But some are yet to be properly felt.
Newsweek has compiled some standout figures. Green recovery
A man walks through a village as steam and smoke rise from the Belchatow coal power station on November 29, 2018 at Rogowiec, Poland. Emissions slowed for a time during the pandemic.
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