Combining ambitious climate policies with efforts to eradicate poverty

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bjoern Soergel, Elmar Kriegler, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Nico Bauer, Marian Leimbach, Alexander Popp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22315-9