{"id":12059,"date":"2021-02-01T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T07:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=12059"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:24","slug":"25-opportunities-to-save-the-planet-after-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/02\/01\/25-opportunities-to-save-the-planet-after-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"25 opportunities to save the planet after covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">COVID-19 has presented us with a unique opportunity for a green and inclusive recovery that will make the world a better place for everyone, says the head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The pandemic has shown us the importance of being prepared when crises hit. It has also shown us that postponing bold decisions can have huge costs,&#8221; says Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Gurr\u00eda, OECD Secretary General.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We were not prepared for the COVID-19 crisis, and we are even less prepared for the looming consequences of ongoing and worsening challenges such as climate change, biodiversity collapse, life-shortening air pollution, and ocean acidification.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/environment\/25-climate-actions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">25 things the OECD says we must do<\/a>&nbsp;to accelerate a fair, low-carbon recovery, focusing on five key emitting sectors of the world economy \u2013 agriculture, buildings, electricity, industry and transport \u2013 and using five policy levers: investment, regulation, tax &amp; subsidies, leadership by example, and information &amp; education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Agriculture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Improve agricultural productivity in sustainable ways that lower emissions and allow us to feed a growing global population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Reform food and farming regulations that lead to overproduction, waste food and distort prices and increase agricultural emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Use the tax system and support payments to reduce emissions, taking care to avoid inflating food prices or driving farmers out of business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Include agriculture in national climate change strategies to ensure its effects are not overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Help consumers and producers make informed food choices and reduce food waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Improve agricultural productivity in sustainable ways that lower emissions and allow us to feed a growing global population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Reform food and farming regulations that lead to overproduction, waste food and distort prices and increase agricultural emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Use the tax system and support payments to reduce emissions, taking care to avoid inflating food prices or driving farmers out of business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Include agriculture in national climate change strategies to ensure its effects are not overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Help consumers and producers make informed food choices and reduce food waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Buildings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6. Ensure that public money is not spent on projects that harm the climate and invest instead in sustainable buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7. Put in place stringent climate-friendly building regulations and construction standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8. Use tax and financial incentives to renovate and reuse existing buildings rather than always building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9. Encourage sustainable building within urban and rural planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10. Teach planners and builders how to construct and maintain green buildings.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/save-planet-after-covid-19-2650177459.html?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 has presented us with a unique opportunity for a green and inclusive recovery that will make the world a better place for everyone, says the head of the Organization&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12060,"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-12059","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\/12059","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=12059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}