Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Combining ambitious climate policies with efforts to eradicate poverty

  • Bjoern Soergel,
  • Elmar Kriegler,
  • Benjamin Leon Bodirsky,
  • Nico Bauer,
  • Marian Leimbach,
  • Alexander Popp

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22315-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Ambitious climate policies can negatively impact the global poor by affecting income, food and energy prices. Here, the authors quantify this effect, and show that it can be compensated by national redistribution of the carbon pricing revenues in combination with international climate finance.