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== 5.2 Poverty, Equality and Equity Implications of a 1.5°C Warmer World ==

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Climate change could lead to significant impacts on extreme poverty by 2030 (Hallegatte et al., 2016; Hallegatte and Rozenberg, 2017) <sup>[[#fn:r14|14]]</sup> . The AR5 concluded, with ''very high confidence'' , that climate change and climate variability worsen existing poverty and exacerbate inequalities, especially for those disadvantaged by gender, age, race, class, caste, indigeneity and (dis)ability (Olsson et al., 2014) <sup>[[#fn:r15|15]]</sup> . New literature on these links is substantial, showing that the poor will continue to experience climate change severely, and climate change will exacerbate poverty ( ''very high confidence'' ) (Fankhauser and Stern, 2016; Hallegatte et al., 2016; O’Neill et al., 2017a; Winsemius et al., 2018) <sup>[[#fn:r16|16]]</sup> . The understanding of regional impacts and risks of 1.5°C global warming and interactions with patterns of societal vulnerability and poverty remains limited. Yet identifying and addressing poverty and inequality is at the core of staying within a safe and just space for humanity (Raworth, 2017; Bathiany et al., 2018) <sup>[[#fn:r17|17]]</sup> . Building on relevant findings from Chapter 3 (see Section 3.4), this section examines anticipated impacts and risks of 1.5°C and higher warming on sustainable development, poverty, inequality and equity (see Glossary).

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