• People

UNICEF Report Finds One Billion Children at Extreme Risk of Climate Impacts

• children
• inequality
• UNICEF

By Amy Lupica, ODP Staff Writer   A first-of-its-kind study from UNICEF has found that nearly half of the world’s 2.2 billion children are at “extremely high risk” from the impacts of climate change. According to the report, almost every child in the world is now at risk of experiencing at least one significant consequence of rapidly changing climate […]

• Climate Change

Women Face Worse Health Risks From Climate Change Than Men

• climate change
• equality
• gender
• health care
• heat
• inequality
• men
• women

Climate change is a public health issue, and an analysis of 130 studies finds that women face worse health risks from climate impacts. Carbon Brief has mapped out the analysis, showing how climate change affects the health of women and men around the world. 

Why This Matters: The myriad of ways climate change is already reshaping our world won’t impact everyone equally.

• Climate Change

The Wealthiest 1% Create Twice the CO2 Emissions of the Poorest 50%

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• climate change
• greenhouse gas emissions
• inequality
• wealthiest 1%

The world’s richest one percent cause more than double the CO₂ of the poorest 50% according to a new study from Oxfam. From 1990 to 2015, CO₂ emissions rose by 60%; experts saw the wealthiest one percent’s emissions rise three times more than those of the poorest half during that period.

 Why this matters: While the wealthiest indulge in luxuries that contribute more to climate change, a federal report found that the poor will be among the earliest victims of climate crises and will be impacted the most.

• Climate Change

Climate Change Worsening Global Inequality

• climate change
• Environmental Justice
• income inequality
• inequality

A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has suggested that climate change has worsened global inequality and has caused the most economic harm to nations who have done the least to contribute to climate change. Additionally, countries with the highest temperatures suffered the most economic damage. As […]

• Health

New study reveals white Americans cause air pollution, minorities suffer the consequences

• air pollution
• Environmental Justice
• Green New Deal
• inequality

The burden of air pollution is not evenly shared, according to the American Lung Association, poorer people and some racial and ethnic groups are among those who often face higher exposure to pollutants and who may experience greater responses to such pollution. Now a new study published this week in the journal PNAS found that […]