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  Climate change impacts increase economic inequality: evidence from a systematic literature review

Méjean, A., Collins-Sowah, P. A., Guivarch, C., Piontek, F., Sörgel, B., Taconet, N. (2024): Climate change impacts increase economic inequality: evidence from a systematic literature review. - Environmental Research Letters, 19, 043003.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad376e

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Méjean, Aurélie1, Author
Collins-Sowah, Peron Agbeti2, Author              
Guivarch, Céline1, Author
Piontek, Franziska2, Author              
Sörgel, Björn2, Author              
Taconet, Nicolas1, Author
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2Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, ou_persistent13              

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Free keywords: climate change impacts, economic inequality, systematic literature review
 Abstract: While it is widely assumed that poor countries will suffer more from climate change, and that climate change will exacerbate inequalities within countries, systematic and large-scale evidence on this issue has been limited. In this systematic literature review, we examine and synthesize the evidence from the literature. Drawing from 127 individual papers, we find robust evidence that climate change impacts indeed increase economic inequality and disproportionately affect the poor, both globally and within countries on all continents. This result is valid across a wide range of physical impacts, types of economic inequality, economic sectors, and assessment methods. Furthermore, we highlight the channels through which climate change increases economic inequality. While the diversity of different approaches and metrics in the existing literature base precludes extracting a universal quantitative relation between climate change and economic inequality for use in future modelling, our systematic analysis provides an important stepping stone in that direction.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2023-11-102024-03-252024-04-092024-04-09
 Publication Status: Finally published
 Pages: 22
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 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad376e
Organisational keyword: RD2 - Climate Resilience
PIKDOMAIN: RD2 - Climate Resilience
Organisational keyword: RD3 - Transformation Pathways
PIKDOMAIN: RD3 - Transformation Pathways
Working Group: Adaptation in Agricultural Systems
Working Group: Macroeconomic modeling of climate change mitigation and impacts
MDB-ID: yes - 3510
Research topic keyword: Climate impacts
Research topic keyword: Inequality and Equity
Model / method: Quantitative Methods
Regional keyword: Global
OATYPE: Gold Open Access
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Title: Environmental Research Letters
Source Genre: Journal, SCI, Scopus, p3, oa
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 19 Sequence Number: 043003 Start / End Page: - Identifier: CoNE: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/cone/journals/resource/150326
Publisher: IOP Publishing