InequalityClimate changeGHG emissionsEnvironmental Kuznets curveSustainable development goalsPolitical economyThis paper re-evaluates the income-inequality relationship while considering nonhomotheticity in green preferences.In low-income countries, high inequality decreases emissions.In high-income countries, lower...
Climate justice is increasingly prominent in climate change communication and advocacy but little is known about public understanding of the concept or how widely it resonates with different groups. In our global survey of 5,627 adults in 11 countries spanning the global north and south, most part...
we illustrate that climate change decreases both skilled and unskilled wages. However, its effect on wage inequality varies depending on the discrepancy of the capital intensity between the urban skilled and unskilled sectors. Moreover, if the demand for capital in the agricultural equipment sector si...
Public support is fundamental in scaling up actions to limit global warming. Here, we analyse how the experience of climate extremes influences people’s environmental attitudes and willingness to vote for Green parties in Europe. To this end, we combine
release around 1.6 tonnes of CO2, according to Nicholas’s study – almost as much as the average yearly emissions of one person in India. This also highlights the inequality of climate change: while everyone will be af...
8 Poverty, the Environment and Climate Change Introduction One of the most hotly debated issues on globalization is the actual path of world poverty and inequality and its relation to openness. The analysis of public goods of Chapter 5 is extended in a specific section to regional, international...
September 24, 2020This week, McKinsey joined other organizations at Climate Week NYC to discuss ways we can recover from COVID-19 while simultaneously addressing environmental challenges. Ahead of the event, we released a compendium on climate change. Here are six sustainability priorities...
5 In this Health Policy, we explore how several different forms of structural discrimination (based on caste, skin colour, ethnicity, race, Indigeneity, migratory status, and religion) interact with climate change and health. These distinct but intersecting vectors of inequality often result in poor...
first, the existing research lacks a discussion on the relationship between climate change and energy poverty, as well as the environmental regulation and energy poverty, especially on the moderating effect of environmental regulation. based on the china's provincial panel data, this paper uses fe ...
While the so-called experts are blaming climate change—and in the process demanding that government grab even more power and authority ostensibly to someday give us better weather—the destructiveness of this fire was the product of an all-powerful and all-incompetent régime. …To review, a ...