Climate change and inequality related to gender, race, ethnicity, age and ability are inextricably linked. Globalisation has changed the dynamics of both climate change and social inequality.
Over roughly the last 40 years, the latest phase of globalisation has generally increased inequality – measured by wealth and income metrics – globally and within many nations. Alongside this social impact, increasingly globalised trade has driven up carbon emissions, deforestation and the exploitation of resources, all of which are steady contributors to the severity of climate change.
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