气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Social impacts of climate change mitigation policies and their implications for inequality

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DOI	10.1080/14693062.2019.1596873
	Social impacts of climate change mitigation policies and their implications for inequality
	Markkanen S.; Anger-Kraavi A.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	14693062
起始页码	827
结束页码	844
卷号	19 期号:7
英文摘要	The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set ambitious targets for environmental, economic and social progress. Climate change mitigation policies play a central role in this process. To maximize the benefits and minimize the negative effects of climate change mitigation policies, policymakers need to be aware of the indirect and often complex social and inequality impacts that these policies may have and the pathways through which these impacts emerge. Better understanding of the distributional and inequality impacts is important to avoid negative social and distributional outcomes as countries ratchet up their climate policy ambition in the post-Paris context. This paper synthesizes evidence from the existing literature on social co-impacts of climate change mitigation policy and their implications for inequality. The analysis shows that most policies are linked to both co-benefits and adverse side-effects, and can compound or lessen inequalities depending on contextual factors, policy design and policy implementation. The risk of negative outcomes is greater in contexts characterized by high levels of poverty, corruption and economic and social inequalities, and where limited action is taken to identify and mitigate potentially adverse side-effects. Key policy insights The risk of adverse social outcomes associated with climate change mitigation policies, including worsening inequality, increases as countries ratchet up their ambition to meet the Paris Agreement targets. Many policies that have so far only been piloted will need to be up-scaled. Negative inequality impacts of climate policies can be mitigated (and possibly even prevented), but this requires conscious effort, careful planning and multi-stakeholder engagement. Best results can be achieved when potential inequality impacts are taken into consideration in all stages of policy making, including policy planning, development and implementation. Climate change mitigation policies should take a pro-poor approach that, in best case scenarios, can also lead to a reduction of existing inequalities. © 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
英文关键词	Climate change mitigation policy; co-impacts; inequality; just transition; social impacts
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; cost-benefit analysis; environmental policy; mitigation; poverty alleviation; social impact; sustainable development
来源期刊	Climate Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/153388
作者单位	Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Markkanen S.,Anger-Kraavi A.. Social impacts of climate change mitigation policies and their implications for inequality[J],2019,19(7).
APA	Markkanen S.,&Anger-Kraavi A..(2019).Social impacts of climate change mitigation policies and their implications for inequality.Climate Policy,19(7).
MLA	Markkanen S.,et al."Social impacts of climate change mitigation policies and their implications for inequality".Climate Policy 19.7(2019).