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The coronavirus crisis holds profound lessons that can help us address climate change-if we make greater economic and environmental resiliency core to our planning for the recovery ahead.
Fundamental similarities Pandemics and climate risk are similar in that they both represent physical shocks, which then translate into an array of socioeconomics impacts.
Indeed, despite current indications to the contrary, they may well prove, through their accumulated pressures, that boundaries between one nation and another are much less important than boundaries between problems and solutions.
For all-individuals, companies, governments, and civil society-we see two additional priorities.
That includes awareness of the fact that physical shocks can have massive nonlinear impacts on financial and economic systems and thus prove extremely costly.