COVID-19 is making it painfully clear just how interconnected our social, economic, and political challenges are. The spread of the coronavirus disease has changed and affected everything including our environment. A recent poll conducted by the IPSOS MORI, a global market research company also found that 71% of the world population thinks climate change is as serious as coronavirus.

What are the impacts of COVID-19 on the international environmental agenda? Does the people’s fear on coronavirus as serious as climate change can be a contributing factor for our world leaders to make today as a momentum to drive more actions in saving our environment? What has COVID-19 pandemic “told” us about the importance of the community-based actions and contributions? How to build the same spirit to the global efforts in tackling climate change in this case?

I explore those questions with Dayu Nirma Amurwanti, Program Advisor, Climate & Forest, Royal Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta and Former Climate Finance Advisor at the Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia. Check it out!