The East African Saturday January 02 2021 It is also an opportunity for them to adopt climate resilient models that could help drastically reduce emissions and still provide livelihoods for populations. ILLUSTRATION | TEA GRAPHIC Summary The economic shutdown worldwide as a result of the virus crisis has drastically reduced global emissions. But scientists still argue that the emission reduction is temporary as there is no infrastructural, policy or systems change to sustain the emission reductions and rebound effects as growth and emissions will even be higher for a short term to catch up ag...