The readiness of industry for a transformative recovery from COVID 19
Many countries are committed to emerge from COVID 19 on a more sustainable environmental footing. Here we explore what such a structurally transformative recovery would mean for the manufacturing sector of 14 major economies. We find that all countries have zero-carbon growth opportunities post-COVI...
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author | Sam Fankhauser Raphaela Kotsch Sugandha Srivastav |
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description | Many countries are committed to emerge from COVID 19 on a more sustainable environmental footing. Here we explore what such a structurally transformative recovery would mean for the manufacturing sector of 14 major economies. We find that all countries have zero-carbon growth opportunities post-COVID and comparative advantages in some sectors, but industrialised countries and the East Asian economies, especially South Korea, appear best positioned, thanks a push in low-carbon innovation that predates the pandemic. |
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spelling | doaj.art-ff3728c00bf0405da675979d8015c6172023-03-09T12:43:40ZengCambridge University PressGlobal Sustainability2059-47982020-01-01310.1017/sus.2020.29The readiness of industry for a transformative recovery from COVID 19Sam Fankhauser0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2100-7888Raphaela Kotsch1Sugandha Srivastav2Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London School of Economics, London, UKInstitut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Zürich, Zürich, SwitzerlandInstitute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKMany countries are committed to emerge from COVID 19 on a more sustainable environmental footing. Here we explore what such a structurally transformative recovery would mean for the manufacturing sector of 14 major economies. We find that all countries have zero-carbon growth opportunities post-COVID and comparative advantages in some sectors, but industrialised countries and the East Asian economies, especially South Korea, appear best positioned, thanks a push in low-carbon innovation that predates the pandemic.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059479820000290/type/journal_articleclean innovationCOVID 19COVID 19 recoverynet-zero emissionszero-carbon competitivenesszero-carbon transition |
spellingShingle | Sam Fankhauser Raphaela Kotsch Sugandha Srivastav The readiness of industry for a transformative recovery from COVID 19 Global Sustainability clean innovation COVID 19 COVID 19 recovery net-zero emissions zero-carbon competitiveness zero-carbon transition |
title | The readiness of industry for a transformative recovery from COVID 19 |
title_full | The readiness of industry for a transformative recovery from COVID 19 |
title_fullStr | The readiness of industry for a transformative recovery from COVID 19 |
title_full_unstemmed | The readiness of industry for a transformative recovery from COVID 19 |
title_short | The readiness of industry for a transformative recovery from COVID 19 |
title_sort | readiness of industry for a transformative recovery from covid 19 |
topic | clean innovation COVID 19 COVID 19 recovery net-zero emissions zero-carbon competitiveness zero-carbon transition |
url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059479820000290/type/journal_article |
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