Despite al the negatives about the Covid-19 has done to this world , it also helped to make us think on our feet about how to get around some of the difficulties of monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, and carbon dioxide in particular, in real time. When many lockdowns were beginning in March 2020, the next comprehensive Global Carbon Budget setting out the year’s emissions trends was not due until the end of the year. The projections has it that simple climate models have estimated that global temperatures will only be around 0.01C lower as a result of Covid-19. Do you think that we are back to where we were in terms of carbon emissions ?

