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Review
. 2023 Jun 20:878:162936.
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162936. Epub 2023 Mar 18.

Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on climate change summit negotiations from the climate governance perspective

Thi Phuong Tram Vo  1 , Huu Hao Ngo  2 , Wenshan Guo  1 , Chris Turney  3 , Yiwen Liu  1 , Dinh Duc Nguyen  4 , Xuan Thanh Bui  5 , Sunita Varjani  6
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Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on climate change summit negotiations from the climate governance perspective

Thi Phuong Tram Vo et al. Sci Total Environ. .

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions to the world since 2020, with over 647 million confirmed cases and 6.7 million reported deaths as of January 2023. Despite its far-reaching impact, the effects of COVID-19 on the progress of global climate change negotiations have yet to be thoroughly evaluated. This discussion paper conducts an examination of COVID-19's impact on climate change actions at global, national, and local levels through a comprehensive review of existing literature. This analysis reveals that the pandemic has resulted in delays in implementing climate policies and altered priorities from climate action to the pandemic response. Despite these setbacks, the pandemic has also presented opportunities for accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy. The interplay between these outcomes and the different levels of governance will play a crucial role in determining the success or failure of future climate change negotiations.

Keywords: Climate change negotiation; Green recovery; Low-carbon transition; Multi-level climate governance; The COVID-19 pandemic.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Characteristics and interactions between global, national, and local contexts in multi-level climate governance (MLCG) (adapted from (Jänicke, 2017)).
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Percentage of vaccinated and fully vaccinated people in high-income (HI), upper-medium income (UMI), lower-medium income (LMI), and low-income (LI) countries (data obtained from https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations, accessed on 30th May 2022).
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The total spending of COVID-19 fiscal stimulus packages and impacts on emissions (Jaeger et al., 2020).
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