Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic
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Li, Mengyu
Malik, Arunima
Pomponi, Francesco
Sun, Ya-Yen
Wiedmann, Thomas
Faturay, Futu
Fry, Jacob
Gallego, Blanca
Geschke, Arne
Gomez-Paredes, Jorge
Kanemoto, Keiichiro
Kenway, Steven
Nansai, Keisuke
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On 3 April 2020, the Director-General of the WHO stated: "[COVID-19] is much more than a health crisis. We are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic (WHO, 2020)". Such consequences are the result of counter-measures such as lockdowns, and world-wide reductions in production and consumption, amplified by cascading impacts through international supply chains. Using a global multi-regional macro-economic model, we capture direct and indirect spill-over effects in terms of social and economic losses, as well as environmental effects of the pandemic. Based on information as of May 2020, we show that global consumption losses amount to 3.8
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7
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© 2020 Lenzen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Lenzen, M; Li, M; Malik, A; Pomponi, F; Sun, Y-Y; Wiedmann, T; Faturay, F; Fry, J; Gallego, B; Geschke, A; Gomez-Paredes, J; Kanemoto, K; Kenway, S; Nansai, K; et al.; Yousefzadeh, M, Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic, PLoS One, 2020, 15 (7), pp. e0235654