The Coronavirus has brought some alarming difficulties, chief among them the deaths of many people, and serious social dislocation and disruption and yet if looked at through the climate crisis prism alone it has been a good thing as it has cut the world's carbon emissions and if this trend continues it could lead to the first fall in carbon emissions since 2008.

The 2008 drop in emissions was brought on by the then global financial crisis and this health crisis is having an equally massive impact on the world's economy.

And the question about how do we seize this moment, how do sustain this drop in our carbon emissions came up at the recent meeting of the Victorian Climate Action Network (VCAN).

The Coronavirus is being combated through social distancing and that brings with it difficulties for climate activists who until now have found their strength in numbers, something that is going to quite difficult, if not impossible, under the social restrictions being forced upon people because of the pandemic.

It was the Coronavirus pandemic that forced VCAN into holding its latest meeting via Zoom and that being successful, it's likely all future meetings will be held using the same process.

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