To What Extent Can the Legal Strategies Employed to Curb the Global Pandemic (Coronavirus) Aid Climate Change and Global Warming Mitigation if Transposed?

Abstract

This paper suggests that some of the common policies and decrees made by many countries to curb the spread of the Coronavirus (a global pandemic) may also be adoptable to mitigate climate change or reduce greenhouse gas emissions and invariably contribute to the world’s ozone layer repair, considering that both issues are global in nature. However, the article pinpoints some adjustments that may have to be made to some of these rules for them to be transposable for climate change mitigation. Distinctively the paper encourages that although some of these changes imposed by the law may seem extraneous, however, they are vital sacrifices that must be made if the projected climate change effects shall not overcome the human race. According to Antonio Guterres (UN general Secretary): the challenge is a global one and the world must remain resilient in resolving it.