Inequality exasperates climate change response
Islam & Winkel 17 – S. M. Nazrul Islam is a Bangladeshi academic.[1] He served as the 11th Vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, earned his bachelor's from East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology – can’t find other quals, (“Climate Change and Social Inequality”, DESA Working Paper No. 152, October 2017, https://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers/2017/wp152_2017.pdf)//CG
The paper finally notes that, though the analytical framework presented in it focuses on within-country inequality, it can also be applied to describe and analyse the relationship between climate change and across-country inequality. Greater across-country inequality may indeed increase the exposure of the disadvantaged countries to climate hazards. It may also increase their susceptibility to damage caused by climate hazards. Finally, it may also decrease their capability to cope with and recover from the damages suffered. Thus, climate change may aggravate across-county inequality too. However, to keep its scope manageable, this paper limits its attention to within-country inequality and does not extend it to across-country inequality. The 2030 Agenda for sustainable development has brought the issues of both within- and across-country inequality to the fore and calls for the reduction of both. This paper suggests that an opportunity in the otherwise formidable challenge of climate change may be seen in the expansion of the policy space regarding inequality. This is because emergency situations often make it possible to undertake steps that are not possible in normal situations. The emergency posed by climate change may facilitate reduction of inequality, which is otherwise deemed to be a difficult political issue.