PUBLIC POLICIES FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT: LESSONS LEARNED FROM COVID-19 ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Journal
Political Thought, YEAR 19, No 61, MAY, SKOPJE 2021
Date Issued
2021-05
Author(s)
Hristina Runcheva Tasev
Aneta Stojanovska- Stefanova
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic is one of the greatest challenges facing societies in modern
history. The crisis has had a severe impact on health systems and the global economy,
the effects of which will be felt for many years after the pandemic ends. Although at first
glance the Covid-19 pandemic does not seem to have much in common with the world’s
climate change, the essential analysis suggests that the two phenomena have many
similarities given the big picture of these two serious challenges to humanity.
Namely, the pandemic and climate change have a strong resemblance: both are
major threats that cause damage to societies globally. The most serious effects can be
prevented only if states commit to serious and early action in the face of a seemingly
abstract threat. The pandemic is a remarkable, albeit very unfavourable, opportunity
to learn very difficult lessons in dealing with a crisis. The pandemic and climate change
are potentially devastating global problems requiring rapid government intervention.
Although this intervention inevitably creates losers, in both cases it must be decisive and
based on social consensus.
However, if the authorities make an assessment, in the long run, which of these two
severe and serious crises will be easier to deal with, it is believed that it will be the
Covid-19 pandemic2. Climate change seems to be much harder to defeat globally because
of its nature, but also because of the longer period available to deal with it.
The present paper aims to analyze the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic
and climate change, i.e., the degree of impact of Covid-19 on climate change, and the
possibilities of response by the competent authorities with appropriate policies in dealing
with climate change, as a result of the learned lessons from dealing with the pandemic
during the first year of its onset.
history. The crisis has had a severe impact on health systems and the global economy,
the effects of which will be felt for many years after the pandemic ends. Although at first
glance the Covid-19 pandemic does not seem to have much in common with the world’s
climate change, the essential analysis suggests that the two phenomena have many
similarities given the big picture of these two serious challenges to humanity.
Namely, the pandemic and climate change have a strong resemblance: both are
major threats that cause damage to societies globally. The most serious effects can be
prevented only if states commit to serious and early action in the face of a seemingly
abstract threat. The pandemic is a remarkable, albeit very unfavourable, opportunity
to learn very difficult lessons in dealing with a crisis. The pandemic and climate change
are potentially devastating global problems requiring rapid government intervention.
Although this intervention inevitably creates losers, in both cases it must be decisive and
based on social consensus.
However, if the authorities make an assessment, in the long run, which of these two
severe and serious crises will be easier to deal with, it is believed that it will be the
Covid-19 pandemic2. Climate change seems to be much harder to defeat globally because
of its nature, but also because of the longer period available to deal with it.
The present paper aims to analyze the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic
and climate change, i.e., the degree of impact of Covid-19 on climate change, and the
possibilities of response by the competent authorities with appropriate policies in dealing
with climate change, as a result of the learned lessons from dealing with the pandemic
during the first year of its onset.
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