SHIFTING ENVIRONMENT DUE TO ANCILLARY INDUCEMENT OF QUARANTINE &LOCKDOWN ( NCORV _COVID-19)

Abstract

This swot up aims to show the positive and negative indirect effects of COVID-19 on the environment, particularly in the most affected countries such as USA, Italy, and Spain and India. Our research shows that there is a significant association between contingency measures and improvement in air quality, clean beaches and environmental noise reduction. On the other hand, there are also negative secondary aspects such as the reduction in recycling and the increase in waste, further endangering the contamination of physical spaces (water and land), in addition to air. Global economic activity is expected to return in the coming months in most countries (even if slowly), so decreasing GHGs concentrations during a short period is not a sustainable way to clean up our environment.  The worldwide disruption caused by the COVID -19 pandemic has resulted in numerous impacts on the environment and the climate. The considerable decline in planned travel by the people has caused many regions to experience a large drop in air pollution. In China and some other countries, lockdowns and other measures resulted in a 25 per cent reduction in carbon emissionsand 50 per cent reduction in nitrogen oxides emissions. Other positive impacts on the environment include governance-system-controlled investments towards a sustainable energy transition and other goals related to environmental protection. However, the outbreak has also provided cover for illegal activities such as deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in South America and poaching in Africa, hindered environmental diplomacy efforts, and created economic fallout that some predict will slow investment in green energy technologies. Up to 2020, increases in the amount of greenhouse gases produced since the beginning of the industrialization era caused rise in the Earth’s average global temperatures, causing effects including the melting of glaciers and rising sea levels. In various forms, human activity caused environmental degradation, an anthropogenic impact. Prior to the COVID -19 pandemic, measures that were expected to be recommended to health authorities in the case of a pandemic included quarantines and social distancing. Prior to the COVID -19 pandemic, researchers argued that reduced economic activity would help decrease global warming as well as air and marine pollution, allowing the environment to slowly flourish. Researchers and officials have also called for biodiversity protections to form part of COVID -19 recovery strategies.     In this chapter, various types of indirect impacts lockdown on climate change I are delineated precisely.  Some of the changes are like air quality, water quality, wildlife, deforestation and reforestation, carbon emissions, food production, litter, investments and other economic measures, weather forecasts, predicted rebound effect, psychology and risk perception etc.