The Coronavirus Pandemic's Impact On Pollution And Climate Change
when we see this kind of profound shutting down of the transportation sector so much of Industry and the a broader economy that does indicate that a lot of critical pollutants are dropping in their concentrations on the order of 30% say in some major cities so we see the air quality rapidly improving in those places that are quick if potentially temporary response are there specific areas where we have seen market reductions in the amount of greenhouse gases that are outputting as the pandemic has worsened within a week or so of the bay area in California for example going under a lot of these restrictions air quality improving by 30 percent or so so these are these are significant we have seen what looked like reductions of 10 to 30 percent in northeast China and the the industrial part of northern Italy over a short is like a few week periods you know as we started to see the virus hit and some of these restrictions on people's movement and industry going into place so the num...