Ambitious climate policies could help to reduce extreme poverty in developing countries.
This is the result of a new study by scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) – a result that is in contrast to wide-spread assumptions that climate change mitigation comes with a trade-off for poverty reduction. To turn climate policies and poverty reduction into a win-win situation for planet and people, a progressive redistribution of emission pricing revenues and a fair international burden sharing are key.
“Climate policies safeguard people from climate change impacts like extreme weather risks or crop failures. Yet they can also imply increased energy and food prices,“ says Bjoern Soergel from PIK, lead-author of the study. “This could result in an additional burden especially for the global poor, who are already more vulnerable to climate impacts. Poverty reduction hence needs to be included in the design of climate policies.”
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