Coronavirus likely to drive carbon emissions down 6% this year – WMO

The coronavirus pandemic is likely to drive carbon dioxide emissions down 6 percent in 2020, the biggest yearly drop since World War II, said the head of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on Wednesday.
“This crisis has had an impact on the emissions of greenhouse gases,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said at a virtual briefing in Geneva.
“We estimate that there is going to be a 6 percent drop in carbon emissions this year because of the lack of emissions from transportation and industrial energy production.”