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YoungAction for YouropeVision Juliette-France In Europe ,too,Quarantine measures are a double blow both by limiting the risk of transmission between individuals but also by reducing pollution, in particular to fine particles from road traffic. Murat-Turkey With the coronavirus, people started using greenhouse gases less. And you know that greenhouse gases have an important role in climate change. Here are a few researches and analysis on the changes of greenhouse gases emission after coronavirus. Prof. Dr. Mikdat Kadıoğlu said “Since we stay at home and wash hands often, water consumption will increase and this will affect drought negatively. But reducing greenhouse gases was effective in improving air quality. Even if we don't use greenhouse gases all over the world at the moment, the effect of existing ones would continue for 100-200 years”. So personal behaviour really isn't going to fix the carbon emission problem. We need a systematic change in how energy is generated and transmitted.” According to Carbon Brief analysis showed that the crisis temporarily cut CO2 emissions in China by 25%, with emissions still below normal more than two months after the country entered lockdown. So coronavirus reduces climate change, but we need to change our energy sources to stop it. Burak-Turkey The world was against epidemics many times that will change the course of history. In addition to changing the course of history, these epidemic diseases took the lives of most people. People took precautions against these epidemics, but sometimes it was too late. If i had to give an example about the causing the death of many people, i can say black death which is occurred between 1347-1351 and killed about 25 million people. And also i can say spanish flu which is death cause of about 50 million person. It was caused by an outbreak of an H1N1 virus that infects 500 million people or a third of the world's population. Such diseases always occur in the world but if we know how to protect ourselves ,people that we love and the world, we can survive with less loss. Today we are against a virus that called covid- 19. Things are changed in this process. Such as in Turkey activity of shopping malls decreased %75. And electricity consumption is decreased. Persons are staying at home and this effects air pollution in the world therefore there is a connection between air pollution and coronavirus. 32