The impact of the coronavirus epidemic should convince oil companies and governments to “grab the current opportunity” to fight global warming, Greenpeace UK’s boss told Recharge’s sister publication, Upstream.

“The ecological emergency that we are facing has not gone away, but I don’t think anyone was expecting what has happened,” executive director John Sauven told Upstream at Greenpeace offices in North London, a day before the UK government advised social distancing.