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Understanding the distributional impacts of market-based climate policies is crucial to design economically efficient climate change mitigation policies that are socially acceptable and avoid adverse impacts on the poor. Empirical studies that examine the distributional impacts of carbon pricing...
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This paper re-examines the relationship between per capita income, inequality, and per capita emissions while … scale, the effect of inequality on emissions should vary depending on the level of income per capita. Specifically, for a … policies, and thus, lower inequality is beneficial for the environment. With nonhomothetic preferences, the beneficial …
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Countries have pledged to stabilize global warming at a 1.5 to 2°C increase. Either target requires reaching net zero emissions before the end of the century, which implies a major transformation of the economic system. This paper reviews the literature on how policymakers can design climate...
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poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …
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warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … vulnerability especially in poorer Sub-Saharan Africa, there is inclusive evidence on climate change impacts on inequality. Further …
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warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … vulnerability especially in poorer Sub-Saharan Africa, there is inclusive evidence on climate change impacts on inequality. Further …
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We conduct a review of the existing academic literature to outline possible links between climate change and inequality … inequality. Finally, while federal aid and insurance coverage can mitigate the direct impact of physical risks, their structure … research on the nexus between inequality and climate change. …
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This paper examines how income inequality can affect the polarization of heterogeneous party platforms on climate … distributional implications) and an income tax is combined with a model of a carbonintensive economy. For a higher inequality of pre … equilibrium can increase - even if the income tax is used to counteract the increase in income inequality. This result does not …
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While there is widespread agreement that climate change has negative implications for the enjoyment of human rights, it remains unclear in what circumstances State action associated with climate change amounts to a human rights violation. To unpack this question, this chapter analyses how the...
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