This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on environmental sustainability and SDG's, using various case studies. The year 2020 was a historical year mainly due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19 and it influenced or affected the global economy, business models and the industrial sectors, thus impacting sustainability in various ways. Given that sustainability has many faces and facets, it is worthwhile to deal with the relation (or impact) of COVID-19 on various elements of sustainability. This book presents how COVID-19 has influenced Environmental Sustainability along with the SDG's.

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Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Ecological Footprint and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decades of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

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Environmental sustainability's issues during COVID-19 pandemic

Impact of COVID-19 on the Sustainable Development Goals: A human development perspective

Sustainable Cities and the Coronavirus pandemic: A Sustainable Development Goals perspective

COVID-19 and Sustainable Development Goal 12: The impacts of the pandemic on responsible production and consumption

Environmental and sustainability aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic

Impact of COVID-19 Sustainability on the Textile and Clothing Sectors

Climate change and COVID-19: Crisis within Crises for Eradication of Poverty in Bangladesh

Traffic Incidents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A step Towards Meeting the SDGs