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Reuters: Figueres, one of the signatories of the open letter for a “people’s vaccine”, said working together to find a solution to the pandemic was an opportunity “to exercise the muscle of international cooperation which is critical for climate change”. ...

Should we Celebrate! Global economic collapse amid lockdowns means we can meet UN Paris pact! -

Reuters: Global emissions of climate-changing gases are expected to drop 8% this year, according to the International Energy Agency. That is a touch more than the 7.6% drop scientists say is needed each year this decade to meet the Paris accord goal of holding global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times.

UN Paris architect Christiana Figueres: We have an "incredible responsibility" to "actually converge the solutions -- at least the financial solutions -- to coronavirus to the financial solutions for climate. Because what we cannot afford to do is to jump out of the frying pan of COVID and into the raging fire of climate change." 

Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked former UN chief Figueres: "Is there any sense that this could be self-controlling -- that as we see economic growth possibly slowing down around the world, because of coronavirus -- that's actually good for the climate?"

Christiana Figueres replied: "Well, that is, ironically, of course, the other side of this -- right? It may be good for climate. But I think -- because there is less trade, there's less travel, there's less commerce."

Weaponizing Coronavirus: Figueres also said: Expect more disease outbreaks ‘if we continue to deny, delude and delay on climate change’

Figueres also used the coronavirus as an opportunity to plug the UN's campaign to reduce and stop meat-eating around the world. "If we continue to eat animals, we will actually be poisoning ourselves and being the genesis new diseases that we have not seen before," Figueres explained. [See: ‘Food Police’ –UN Meat report: UN seeks ‘massive expansion of the UN’s regulatory power…lifestyle controls’]

Update: Former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres: We need to ‘converge the solutions’ to coronavirus & climate ‘because what we cannot afford to do is to jump out of the frying pan of COVID and into the raging fire of climate change’ - UN Paris architect Christiana Figueres: We have an "incredible responsibility" to "actually converge the solutions -- at least the financial solutions -- to coronavirus to the financial solutions for climate. Because what we cannot afford to do is to jump out of the frying pan of COVID and into the raging fire of climate change." 

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Also see: Climate activists celebrate ‘the benefits of coronavirus’ – ‘It is fantastic for the environment’ – Economic slowdown is ‘good news for the ecologists’

The Week mag touts impact of coronavirus as a ‘win for the environment’ – ‘A significant reduction of…carbon footprints’

Gore-trained UN climate chief Christiana Figueres: Why can’t the US be more like China? (which only increased its CO2 emissions by 171% since the year 2000)

Top UN Climate Official Christiana Figueres was trained by Al Gore — Figueres trained and authorized by Gore to deliver his scientific views

Top UN Climate Official Christiana Figueres Blasts U.S. Climate Policy: Americans Must Realize ‘This Is Their Future They’re Compromising’