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China should be the bellwether for this as they had early lockdowns that initially decreased emissions. They still managed to emit more cumulatively in 2020 than in 2019. They keep increasing their emissions while everyone is distracted. They won’t be the only one. In many places, mostly developing nations, there will be pressures to make up for the economic losses.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-carbon-emissions...

Electric vehicles certainly went up in profile, and not by a little bit. The bicycle industry had significant growth as well. Related?

Instead we've got economists agitating for taxing at-home workers to punish them for undercutting the expected profits of the owners of CBD property empires.