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paper and plastics, and for the backfilling of mines. This highly beneficial carbon
mineralization technology has the longest-term CO 2 storage capacity.
Conclusions
Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges to public health
safety, it has also forced us to face up to climate change. Short-term reductions in
CO 2 emissions are not sufficient for long-term sustainable climate change goals.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, almost all nations are facing economic crisis. This
situation dictates that we need international cooperation to create new climate change
policies, planning to provide public health safety, and plants with suitable advanced
sustainable technologies to reduce GHG. Carbon mineralization is the most beneficial
technology for utilizing CO 2 in a manner that leads to the net reduction of CO 2
emissions into the atmosphere.
Acknowledgements This research was supported by the National Strategic Project-Carbon Mineralization Flagship Center of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the
Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), the Ministry of Environment (ME), and the Ministry of
Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) (2019M3D8A2112963).
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in daily global CO 2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement. Nat Clim Chang
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/itll-take-more-than-just-scientists-to-stem-thispandemic/2020/04/30/9ee1daf6-8b1d-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html. Accessed 5 May
2020
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paper and plastics, and for the backfilling of mines. This highly beneficial carbon
mineralization technology has the longest-term CO 2 storage capacity.
Conclusions
Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges to public health
safety, it has also forced us to face up to climate change. Short-term reductions in
CO 2 emissions are not sufficient for long-term sustainable climate change goals.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, almost all nations are facing economic crisis. This
situation dictates that we need international cooperation to create new climate change
policies, planning to provide public health safety, and plants with suitable advanced
sustainable technologies to reduce GHG. Carbon mineralization is the most beneficial
technology for utilizing CO 2 in a manner that leads to the net reduction of CO 2
emissions into the atmosphere.
Acknowledgements This research was supported by the National Strategic Project-Carbon Mineralization Flagship Center of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the
Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), the Ministry of Environment (ME), and the Ministry of
Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) (2019M3D8A2112963).
References
1. International Energy Agency (IEA) (2019) Global CO 2 emissions in 2019, Article 11, Feb,
2020 https://www.iea.org/articles/global-co2-emissions-in-2019
2. Le Quéré C, Jackson RB, Jones MW, Smith AJP, Abernethy S, Andrew RM, De-Gol AJ, Willis
DR, Shan Y, Canadell JG, Friedlingstein P, Creutzig F, Peters P (2020) Temporary reduction
in daily global CO 2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement. Nat Clim Chang
10:647–653
3. Fischedick M, Roy J, Abdel-Aziz A, Acquaye A, Allwood JM, Ceron J-P, Geng Y, Kheshgi
H, Lanza A, Perczyk D, Price L, Santalla E, Sheinbaum C, Tanaka K (2014) Industry. In:
Edenhofer O, Pichs-Madruga R, Sokona Y, Farahani E, Kadner S, Seyboth K, Adler A, Baum
I, Brunner S, Eickemeier P, Kriemann B, Savolainen J, Schlömer S, von Stechow C, Zwickel
T, Minx JC (eds) Climate change 2014: mitigation of climate change. Contribution of working
group III to the fifth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA
4. Tollefson J, Jackman P (2020) Carbon in the time of Covid-19. Nature 582(11):158–159
5. Damani A (2020) COVID-19 and climate change. Sushruta 13(2): pre-print v1, 1–5
6. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Climate change and development
in Africa post COVID-19: some critical reflections, ACPC. Discussion paper, 2020, 1–17
7. Klenert D, Funke F, Mattauch L, O’Callaghan B (2020) Five Lessons from COVID-19 for
advancing climate change mitigation. Environ Resource Econ 76:751–778
8. Zakaria F (2020) The pandemic is too important to be left to the scientists. Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/itll-take-more-than-just-scientists-to-stem-thispandemic/2020/04/30/9ee1daf6-8b1d-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html. Accessed 5 May
2020