"Limited climate impact from fighting COVID-19"

A story in Cosmos features commentary from researcher Marc Hafstead on a new paper about climate change and COVID-19.

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Date

Aug. 8, 2020

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Media Highlight

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Cosmos

Marc Hafstead, an economist at Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC, agrees. “The true impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be determined by the policy response, or lack thereof, to the economic disruption caused by the pandemic,” he says.

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Air Quality

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