Coronavirus Hinders States’ Climate Change Goals

COVID-19, the Novel Coronavirus, has disrupted virtually all typical ways of living across the United States.

Before the onset of the Coronavirus, climate change appeared to be the biggest threat to humans’ way of life. Now, with public health needing to take center stage, individual state’s climate change goals are having to, understandably, take a back seat, causing most states to fail to meet their climate change goals this year.

How the Coronavirus is working against climate change

Ken Pedotto, CEO of solar-energy matchmaker Solar Simplified, told Solar Magazine that a few forces are working against renewable energy right now.

First, it’s “all hands on deck” to contain the Coronavirus. Second, the economic downturn and public health crisis distract from human beings focusing on the climate change crisis.

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