A webinar by Carbon Brief on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions.

The webinar includes discussions by the following climate scientist and analysts:

1. Corinne Le Quéré,University of East Anglia, presented that CO₂ released due to human activities fell by seventeen percent by April, 2020. This temporarily brought down the emissions to the levels observed in the year 2006
2. Richard Betts, University of Exeter, said that while the CO₂ concentrations were only eleven percent of the expected emissions for 2020, they have continued to rise and accumulate in the atmosphere.
3. Lauri Myllyvirta,Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), discussed his research related to emissions in China and India during the pandemic.
4. Zeke Hausfather, director of Breakthrough Institute, discusses how 2019 might be the peak year for CO₂ emissions.

Students will learn about the perspectives of various researchers and their interpretation of the CO₂ concentrations recorded during the pandemic. They will also be introduced to various future predictions of emissions in different sectors, countries and under different policies.