COVID-19 Impacts on Climate Change-Sustainable Technologies for Carbon Capture Storage and Utilization (CCUS)

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread around the world like wildfire, impacting health, industry, the global economy, and the environment. This paper focuses on climate change, discussing the global trend in CO2 emissions and how COVID-19 is impacting climate change. Global warming is the greatest environmental challenge our planet has ever faced. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), CO2 emissions declined by 8% during 2020. Of the wide range of sustainable technologies available for carbon capture, mineralization technology is the first to produce carbonate minerals by directly reacting minerals with low concentration CO2 . This long-term technology affords extended capacity for CO2 storage. We consider the extensive guidelines required for climate change during the battle against COVID-19.