Yervand Sarkisyan

Thinking about the events that have rapidly changed the world in the last 3 months, the impact that it may have on sustainability and resilience may be profound.   Coronavirus has affected lives of billions of people globally. 3 billion people in lockdown, 1.3 million confirmed cases and growing and more than 72,000 deaths already as of writing this article. Economy has been pushed into recession with much of the economy being ground to a halt. Markets have been tumbling and volatile, with stock market indices down for around 20-30 percent over the last month as crisis unfolded. Millions of jobs at risk with unemployment in most of the countries globally predicted to hit double digit figures. A very grim picture. However there have been also some clear winners in this situation. The environment has been the main beneficiary of the halt of human activity. In the last month since lockdown started in Wuhan and since the beginning of 2020 in Europe and USA we have seen: significa...