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Coronavirus: A Better Environment for the Earth?

Duration: 26 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS South AsiaLatest broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS Europe

Coronavirus has led to reduced pollution, falling carbon emissions, re-emerging wildlife: all an environmentalists dream. But will it continue and will we see long lasting environmental change? There are mountains of food going to waste, unrecyclable waste rising daily; severe cuts in agricultural and fishery export levels, while the maintenance and monitoring of natural ecosystems has been temporarily halted; and tourism activity to natural areas has ceased. So what action will and should the world take next? Join Zeinab Badawi, her panel of experts and a global audience putting their questions Panel Inger Andersen Executive Director UN Environment Programme Lily Cole Super model, Actor, Activist and Writer, mostly recent author of Who Cares Wins: Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World.
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