Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up. In a world paralyzed by coronavirus, clearer skies and animals roaming free.

We celebrate Earth Day at 50 with legendary broadcaster and pioneering naturalist Sir David Attenborough.

And we have one chance to defeat climate change and it is right now.

The presidential candidate who put the climate front and center of his campaign.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee joins me as he tackles these twin emergencies.

Then, trying to divide society rather than trying to find common answers is one of the steps towards authoritarianism.

Nationalism on the rise as the pandemic takes over,

former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright

on long-term implications for the world order.

And finally, reimagining our world after COVID. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wannpur working from home in London.

Coronovirus continues to ravage the globe endangering our health and our economies.

But another crisis has been threatening our planet long before COVID-19 appeared and that is the climate emergency

And today is Earth Day while it usually brings people around the world together on its 50th anniversary today.

Lockdown means that it's being celebrated in silence, but its message is more important

than ever.

With economies frozen, pollution is plummeting, our skies and

waterways are clearer and our air is cleaner. The World Meteorological Organization

says the pandemic will reduce carbon emissions by 6% this year.

It's the sharpest drop since World War II, but even that is not enough to reverse the dangerous

effect of carbon emissions.

So how do we turn this opportunity into a lasting change?

Of course, there's no one better to talk about the wonders of our planet than the world

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