The coronavirus pandemic stay-at-home orders and lockdowns resulted in a huge drop in global greenhouse gas emissions — the largest reductions since World War II. The reductions were short-lived as the U.S. and other countries opened back up, but there are lessons we can take away from the pandemic about global climate change and how we’re handling both crises. In this episode of Unfold, we look at surprising similarities between the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic.   

In this episode:

Fraser Shilling, co-director, Road Ecology Center at UC Davis

Ben Houlton, affiliate faculty member, former director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment at UC Davis

Helene Margolis, associate adjunct professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine

Tracey Goldstein, associate director, One Health Institute at UC Davis