Corona perspectives: The Corona crisis and the environment

The economic crisis triggered by the pandemic has had a positive impact on the environment. Pollution levels across the world have dropped drastically in the wake of closed industries and the decrease of airline and car traffic. In Delhi, one of the world's most polluted cities, the air quality as improved tremendously, as reported by CNN (below). But this improvement comes with a price. The economic downturn that has halted fossil fuel pollution globally is also producing enormous unemployment and poverty, especially among the most vulnerable communities across the world. How can the world's poor be protected without re-accelerating the climate crisis? What kind of world system can protect both vulnerable communities and the environment? See more below, including an Open Letter to Global Leaders from The Club of Rome:

Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies monitors the Covid-19 pandemic

There is little doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic affects communities and nations across the world in different ways, and that the world’s poor are going to experience this crisis much more keenly than people belonging to affluent communities. As a postcolonial research centre, Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies will help monitor the development of the crisis. At the centre's web page above, you will find research and opinion pieces that highlight the dispersed and uneven impact of the crisis in Swedish and global society.

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