Climate change impacts increase economic inequality: evidence from a systematic literature review
Aurélie Méjean,
Peron Collins-Sowah,
Céline Guivarch
et al.
Abstract:While it is widely assumed that poor countries will suffer more from climate change, and that climate change will exacerbate inequalities within countries, systematic and large-scale evidence on this issue has been limited. In this systematic literature review, we examine and synthesize the evidence from the literature. Drawing from 127 individual papers, we find robust evidence that climate change impacts indeed increase economic inequality and disproportionately affect the poor, both globally and within coun… Show more
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