Share Dr Mithika Mwenda, executive director of PACJA, said: ‘We are now past the point where we can address the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate emergency as separate crises. ‘This report shows that the pandemic has not only forestalled urgently needed action to halt and begin reversing global warming, but it has also worsened existing vulnerabilities to climate change, weakened the adaptive capacities of communities and countries, especially in Africa, and raised the cost of future climate action.’ Governments should put out daily figures on how many deaths are being caused by adverse weather just like with Covid, researchers said (pictured: dried up municipal dam in drought-stricken Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, in November 2019)