{"id":10095,"date":"2020-06-25T09:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T06:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10095"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:08","slug":"has-covid-19-brought-us-closer-to-tackling-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/06\/25\/has-covid-19-brought-us-closer-to-tackling-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Covid-19 Brought Us Closer to Tackling Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has the pandemic helped individuals, industry and government get any closer to tackling the environmental crisis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was so worried about the dangers of going too far,\u201d says Sally Capp, Lord Mayor of Melbourne, when she now thinks about her pre-pandemic leadership on the environment.&nbsp;The leader of Australia\u2019s second most populated city believes Covid-19 has helped her clarify what\u2019s important to her as an individual and as mayor.&nbsp;\u201cI have become much more resolute about my values,&nbsp;prioritising&nbsp;humanity and protecting the environment, so they can play a larger role in driving my agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pandemic has created the most significant economic shock\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-52236936\">since the Great Depression<\/a>, besides being a public health crisis like no other in living memory.\u00a0The existential threat that it has posed has set many individuals, cities and national leaders on a new track. In Capp\u2019s case, it has meant taking very different decisions on the environment, leading in a way that focuses on what\u2019s truly important. Capp believes this trend needs to continue post Covid-19. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20200624-has-covid-19-brought-us-closer-to-stopping-climate-change?ocid=ww.social.link.whatsapp\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has the pandemic helped individuals, industry and government get any closer to tackling the environmental crisis? \u201cI was so worried about the dangers of going too far,\u201d says Sally Capp,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}