At the beginning of last winter, everything was still as we knew it. We were already looking forward to the first Buyer's Guide in the fall and struggled to decide whether it was justifiable to strap our skis under our feet soon despite the lack of snow and the nationwide Fridays for Future demonstrations. But then March came and somehow everything changed from then on. Ski resorts closed, there were lockdowns across Europe and even the world, and there was only one common goal: to stop the spread of coronavirus. Skiing became unimportant. Climate change became unimportant.
Carbon dioxide emissions fell and dolphins were spotted in the Bay of Venice. In short: nature returned. Suddenly everything seemed simple. Suddenly we all wanted to change. So maybe Corona had something good after all? Unfortunately, it wasn't that simple. A United Nations report published in September 2020 states that global carbon dioxide emissions fell by around 17% in April compared to the previous year. However, by the beginning of June, daily CO2 emissions were only around five percent lower than in 2019. For the year as a whole, the authors forecast a reduction of only four to seven percent compared to the previous year's figures.
