Combining ambitious climate policies with efforts to eradicate poverty

Abstract

Climate change threatens to undermine efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. However, climate policies could impose a financial burden on the global poor through increased energy and food prices. Here, we project poverty rates until 2050 and assess how they are influenced by mitigation policies consistent with the 1.5 °C target. A continuation of historical trends will leave 350 million people globally in extreme poverty by 2030. Without progressive redistribution, climate policies would push an additional 50 million people into poverty. However, redistributing the national carbon pricing revenues domestically as an equal-per-capita climate dividend compensates this policy side effect, even leading to a small net reduction of the global poverty headcount (−6 million). An additional international climate finance scheme enables a substantial poverty reduction globally and also in Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining national redistribution with international climate finance thus provides an important entry point to climate policy in developing countries.

Ten new insights in climate science 2021: a horizon scan

“…Recent studies show that a redistribution of resources through a global cap-and-trade system, combined with financial transfers from rich to poor countries, can avoid regressive effects (Bauer et al, 2020). Further, global equal per capita revenue sharing can reduce global poverty (Soergel et al, 2021).…”

The Avocado (<em>Persea americana</em> Mill.): A Review and Sustainability Perspectives

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“…Large-scale Avocado farming is known to create environmental issues, including soil degradation, contamination of surrounding water bodies and pollution. However, small landholders and their Avocado cultivation business is at the centre of a workable, sustainable farming approach in line with SDGs [3,[199][200][201]. Avocado is also considered an alternative crop to coffee farming, and its cultivation is on the rise among small landholders in various African countries [2,3,34,198].…”

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Editorial: Urban Ecosystem Services and Disservices in Tropical Regions

“…Aside from the changing nature of ecosystem services, tropical cities also face significant deficiencies in urban infrastructure, such as sanitation and waste management facilities (Paes et al, 2021). On top of infrastructure problems, many residents of tropical cities are poor and face daily challenges ranging from their geopolitical outlook through their vulnerabilities associated to synergic effects from climate change including pollution and diseases (Reiner et al, 2015;Soergel et al, 2021). Thus, a major challenge facing tropical cities is how to reconcile the conflicts between human well-being and biodiversity in terms of ecosystem services and disservices.…”