A critical analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy and ecosystems and opportunities for circular economy strategies.
A critical analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy and ecosystems and opportunities for circular economy strategies.
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10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105169
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2021-01
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Koh SCL
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Ibn-Mohammed T;Mustapha KB;Godsell J;Adamu Z;Babatunde KA;Akintade DD;Acquaye A;Fujii H;Ndiaye MM;Yamoah FA;Koh SCL
2019冠状病毒病对人类努力的各个方面提出了前所未有的挑战。本报告对疫情的负面和正面影响进行了批判性审查。强调了依赖流行病驱动的利益来实现可持续发展目标的危险。本报告审视了疫情及其与循环经济（CE）方法的相互作用。概述了在COVID-19后的弹性世界中针对特定行业的CE建议。世界卫生组织于二零二零年三月十一日宣布COVID-19为全球大流行病，但全球仍受其影响。病例起源于中国，迅速在地球仪蔓延，促使世界各国政府实施严格措施，努力隔离病例，限制病毒传播速度。然而，这些措施粉碎了现代世界经济的核心支柱，因为全球贸易与合作屈服于民族主义的关注和对稀缺供应的竞争。在此背景下，本文件对疫情的负面和正面影响进行了严格审查，并就如何利用这些影响来引导实现更好、更有韧性的低碳经济提出了看法。该文件分析了依赖大流行病带来的好处来实现可持续发展目标的危险，并强调需要对我们生活方式的动态进行决定性的根本性结构变革。它主张重新思考目前的全球经济增长模式，这种模式由线性经济系统形成，并由暴利和耗能的制造过程维持，有利于在循环经济（CE）框架下重新校准的更可持续的模式。基于支持CE作为平衡实现利润与最小环境危害的复杂等式的工具的证据，该文件概述了CE相关解决方案的具体行业建议，以促进全球经济增长和发展，适应COVID-19后的世界。
COVID-19 presents unprecedented challenge to all facets of human endeavour. A critical review of the negative and positive impacts of the pandemic is presented. The danger of relying on pandemic-driven benefits to achieving SDGs is highlighted. The pandemic and its interplay with circular economy (CE) approaches is examined. Sector-specific CE recommendations in a resilient post-COVID-19 world are outlined. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on the 11th of March 2020, but the world is still reeling from its aftermath. Originating from China, cases quickly spread across the globe, prompting the implementation of stringent measures by world governments in efforts to isolate cases and limit the transmission rate of the virus. These measures have however shattered the core sustaining pillars of the modern world economies as global trade and cooperation succumbed to nationalist focus and competition for scarce supplies. Against this backdrop, this paper presents a critical review of the catalogue of negative and positive impacts of the pandemic and proffers perspectives on how it can be leveraged to steer towards a better, more resilient low-carbon economy. The paper diagnosed the danger of relying on pandemic-driven benefits to achieving sustainable development goals and emphasizes a need for a decisive, fundamental structural change to the dynamics of how we live. It argues for a rethink of the present global economic growth model, shaped by a linear economy system and sustained by profiteering and energy-gulping manufacturing processes, in favour of a more sustainable model recalibrated on circular economy (CE) framework. Building on evidence in support of CE as a vehicle for balancing the complex equation of accomplishing profit with minimal environmental harms, the paper outlines concrete sector-specific recommendations on CE-related solutions as a catalyst for the global economic growth and development in a resilient post-COVID-19 world.
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