Soergel, B., Kriegler, E., Bodirsky, B.L. et al. Combining ambitious climate policies with efforts to eradicate poverty. Nat Commun

Objective:

• Compute the resulting changes in the income distribution and the effects on national, regional and global poverty rates

Case:

• Global countries

Methodology:

• IAM: REMIND-MAgPIE
• Loss function
• Decomposition
• OLS

Data Source

• SSP

Findings:

• Mitigation policies without associated redistribution policies would lead to and increase in poverty compared to the baseline trend

• A progressive redistribution of the national carbon pricing revenues can substantially alleviate or even compensate the policy side effect

Coding Reference:

• R