How inequality fuels climate change: The climate case for a Green New Deal

Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake

“…Addressing many of the factors affecting the soft limits to adaptation can provide an entry point for more effective responses to compound extreme events—for example, improving access to finance, affordability of new technologies, and good governance and government responsiveness; enhancing social, gender, and cultural capital; reducing poverty and inequality; and boosting climate change literacy and education and safeguarding indigenous and traditional knowledge, while better addressing inequality and other economic vulnerabilities to improve climate change responses. 157 This requires greater attention to the complexity of interactions affecting risk and application of both qualitative and quantitative studies to empirically demonstrate these effects across different scales and contexts. Failure to do so will underestimate the urgency and severity of risk from responses to climate change, fail to ensure safeguards for vulnerability and exposure concerning responses (both for adaptation and mitigation), and miss the opportunity to better inform how responses can effectively reduce risk that can unlock inaction, policy inertia, and uninformed adaptation and mitigation responses to climate change and enable climate resilient development.…”

Climate change and health equity: A research agenda for psychological science.

“…Thus, inequities can stem from both adaptation and mitigation policies that are designed without considering or including vulnerable populations. Inequality can also fuel climate change by driving more carbon-intensive and competitive modes of consumption and by concentrating political and economic power (Green & Healy, 2022). Thus, climate interventions that address existing inequities may be more effective in mitigating climate change than those that fail to take inequities into account.…”

A Social Guarantee to Meet Everyone's Needs within Environmental Limits

“…Green and Healy, who have reviewed a range of GND programmes, conclude that a crucial component is 'sustainable social-provisioning policies' that aim to 'ensure that everyone has access to goods and services that securely satisfy basic human needs via provisioning systems that are environmentally sustainable'. 16 Introducing the Social Guarantee framework would mean that measures to reduce emissions and resource depletion would be designed to comply with social justice principles, rather than simply focussing on ecological targets. This would help to achieve a transition where universal access to life's essentials is seen as central to sustainable living and where the costs of climate mitigation are not loaded onto the poor.…”