The Paris target of 1.5-degree warming can only be achieved through a substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, which will require the rapid implementation of bold Climate Change Mitigation (CCM) policies. While CCM policies are essential for emission control, their price and employment effects can result in welfare losses for the poor and also undermine popular support for implementation.

This webinar shared findings from a recent study comissioned by KFW and prepared by Anna McCord and Cecilia Costella, Pathways for Social Protection in the Just Transition of Low- and MiddleIncome Countries.  The report draws on recent literature to explore the impacts of three major CCM approaches – Energy Subsidy Reform (ESR), Carbon Taxation and the green transition - on poverty, and summarises how social protection can be used to mitigate these negative impacts and promote the acceptability of CCM interventions, contributing to the realisation of a Just Transition.  It also sets out practical recommendations for designing and implementing social protection systems to support these three CCM approaches, including recommendations for development partner investment.

 

Speakers:

Dr Anna McCord, Lead and Principal Researcher Climate Change and Social Protection (CCASP) Research Initiative, Poverty and Inequality Practice / ODI

Dr Daniele Malerba, Senior Researcher Transformation of Economic and Social Systems, IDOS German Institute of Development and Sustainability

Jana Bischler, Technical Officer Social Protection and Climate Change, ILO

Dunja Krause, Lead Environmental and Climate Justice Programme, UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

Moderator: Dr Meghan Bailey, Red Cross Climate Centre 

 

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