While the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues to threaten millions of lives around the world, the first half of 2020 saw an unprecedented decline in carbon dioxide emissions — larger than during the financial crisis of 2008, the oil crisis of the 1979, or even World War II.

Source: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact

From Science Daily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201014082806.htm