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From the Document: Analysing the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic\'s impact on the climate-energy nexus, raises three important questions First, what does this global health and economic crisis mean for the future of fossil fuels, particularly oil? Because of the drop in economic activity, greenhouse gas emissions have plummeted, but how can we ensure a structural decline that is aligned with the Paris Agreement? Third, how can we embed the ideas of a \'just transition\' within the broader post-pandemic \'green recovery\'? This policy brief offers a glimpse of the direction away from fossil fuels that our global energy system must take to govern the post-pandemic world COVID-19 (Disease);Climate change mitigation;Fossil fuels
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