Interplay Consequences of COVID-19 on Global Environmental Sustainability
Mir Sayed Shah Danish, Tomonobu Senjyu, Najib Rahman Sabory, Alexey Mikhaylov
Abstract
This chapter outlines the essentials of COVID-19 and its relation to environmental mitigation. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the ranking concern of climate change distress, and it is ranking as the first global priority to be adequately tackled. However, the pandemic demonstrates with economic, social, and cultural constraints. Still, climate change and environmental pollution have been ignored as the utmost precaution while their impact is more severe in the long run. This chapter evaluates available opportunities for environmental sustainability in the pandemic era. At the same time, the most significant aspect of solid waste, especially clinical waste, is critical for limiting pandemics and preventing future consequences of improper waste management. Sustainable production relies on criteria that ensure affordability, accessibility, use efficiency, safety, disparity, and other factors of production, supply, distribution, and consumption that are efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly.