Reducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America

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dc.contributor.authorRennkamp, Britta
dc.contributor.authorMoyo, Alfred
dc.contributor.authorWills, William
dc.contributor.authorGrottera, Carolina
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T13:22:55Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T13:22:55Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.updated2016-02-03T12:50:28Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides some answers to this question and outlines future research on mitigation and inequality. The question is relevant, because developing countries have come under growing pressure to introduce mitigation actions that help to reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emissions. These mitigation actions need to be ‘nationally appropriate’ (UNFCCC 2007) and different from those in the developed countries, taking the economic structures, poverty and inequalities into account. Mitigating emissions and reducing poverty at the same time sharpens the trade-­off. Governments need to decide on expenditure of limited resources on poverty or mitigation. According to previous research the need for such a trade-­off decreases when countries become richer (Ravallion et al. 2000). This implies that governments have a growing option to achieve both ends.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationRennkamp, B., Moyo, A., Wills, W., & Grottera, C. (2012). Reducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America. <i>MAPS</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16907en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationRennkamp, Britta, Alfred Moyo, William Wills, and Carolina Grottera "Reducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America." <i>MAPS</i> (2012) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16907en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationRennkamp, B; Moyo, A; Wills, W & Grottera, C. (2012). Reducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America. MAPS Research Paper. Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town: LIMA/COPPE/UCT, MAPS.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Rennkamp, Britta AU - Moyo, Alfred AU - Wills, William AU - Grottera, Carolina AB - This paper provides some answers to this question and outlines future research on mitigation and inequality. The question is relevant, because developing countries have come under growing pressure to introduce mitigation actions that help to reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emissions. These mitigation actions need to be ‘nationally appropriate’ (UNFCCC 2007) and different from those in the developed countries, taking the economic structures, poverty and inequalities into account. Mitigating emissions and reducing poverty at the same time sharpens the trade-­off. Governments need to decide on expenditure of limited resources on poverty or mitigation. According to previous research the need for such a trade-­off decreases when countries become richer (Ravallion et al. 2000). This implies that governments have a growing option to achieve both ends. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - MAPS LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - Reducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America TI - Reducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16907 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/16907
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationRennkamp B, Moyo A, Wills W, Grottera C. Reducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America. MAPS. 2012; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16907.en_ZA
dc.languageengen_ZA
dc.publisherEnergy Research Centre, University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentEnergy Research Centreen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_ZA
dc.sourceMAPSen_ZA
dc.subject.otherGreenhouse gas mitigation
dc.subject.otherEnergy policy
dc.subject.otherSustainable development
dc.titleReducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin Americaen_ZA
dc.typeJournal Articleen_ZA
uct.subject.keywordsinequalityen_ZA
uct.subject.keywordspovertyen_ZA
uct.subject.keywordsclimate changeen_ZA
uct.subject.keywordsmitigationen_ZA
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