The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic can be defined as the archetypal litmus test or crucible, given the fundamental changes in collective behaviour and trends that it has imposed on human societies. So much so, that time will be tracked, for a long time, in two major eras: the pre- and the post-pandemic ones. Nowhere is this more evident than in the environmental domain, where the pandemic has managed to achieve what countless multilateral agreements, foremost amongst these the 2015 UNFCCC Paris agreement, have been signed to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

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