SDG 13: Climate Action

What are the policy trade-offs between climate action and poverty reduction?

Climate change is a threat to poverty reduction, as it will disproportionately impact the poor.

Climate change is a threat to poverty reduction, as it will disproportionately impact the poor. Image: Pexels/Kafeel Ahmed

Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva
Global Director, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank Group
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