The Covid-19 corona virus pandemic led to global lockdowns that severely curtailed economic activity. It is a rare project that will shape the agenda of the study, with great impacts. There are five sets of issues: short-term effects on oil, economic and agricultural policies Including regulations and COP26; long-term implications of monetary and fiscal intervention and investment in green agreements on future generations; prospects for further de-globalization and its effect on climate change and nature; intergenerational environmental consequences, including debt and polling.

The Covid-19 struck first in late 2019, in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province. It soon spread outside of Asia. Many responses from the Government were lock-downs of varying intensities and duration.