Event hears that falling oil and gas prices may be a barrier to implementing greener policies.

Governments around the world will struggle to translate the immediate environmental benefits of global Covid-19 lockdowns to long-term gains, according to an IWPR discussion on the pandemic and climate change.

The online event, hosted by IWPR Central Asia, its CABAR.asia analytical platform and the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, also warned that the region would find falling oil and gas prices a further barrier to implementing greener policies.

Chaired by OSCE Academy postdoc research fellow Mirza Sadaqat Huda, speakers at the June 24 discussion all stressed that the pandemic had led to an unprecedented fall in CO2 emissions.

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