How to bring greener changes in our lives as the lessons learned from covid 19
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Lessons learned from COVID-19 can help us fight climate change
Just like COVID-19, climate change is destroying lives and ruining livelihoods on a daily bases across the world.
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Environmental activist and the Director of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT).
27 Nov 2020
Without needing to read academic studies and examining climate models, every farmer and herder in Africa knows the bottom line: the weather is changing and it is changing fast, writes Ibrahim [Christopher Furlong/Getty Images]
Without needing to read academic studies and examining climate models, every farmer and herder in Africa knows the bottom line: the weather is changing and it is changing fast, writes Ibrahim [Christopher Furlong/Getty Images]
The pressing need to develop a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine and make it available to everyone everywhere to bring an end to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic resulted in a rare collaboration between world governments, scientists and private drug manufacturers.
The economic and social devastation caused by this catastrophic global public health emergency not only underlined the importance of multilateral international collaboration, but also forced us to acknowledge the glaring social and economic inequalities that exist both in wealthy and poor countries.