Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Poverty eradication in a carbon constrained world

  • Klaus Hubacek,
  • Giovanni Baiocchi,
  • Kuishuang Feng,
  • Anand Patwardhan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00919-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The consequences of poverty eradication on limiting warming to 2 °C are not fully clear. Here, Hubacek et al. find that while ending extreme poverty does not jeopardize the climate target, moving everybody to a modest expenditure level increases required mitigation rate by 27%