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The paper synthesizes academic and policy evidence to explain how climate mitigation and adaptation can reduce emissions while managing impacts and improving the wellbeing of people in poverty. It develops the ethical foundations, assesses unequal effects (including gender), reviews economic channels and market failures, and discusses how policy design can integrate both objectives with further research directions.","Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \n\n| The Relationship between Climate Action and Poverty Reduction |\n| --- |\n| Hans Peter Lankes, Rob Macquarie, Éléonore Soubeyran, and Nicholas Stern |\n\nThere is growing awareness that actions by policymakers and international organizations to reduce poverty, and those to mitigate and adapt to climate change, are inextricably linked and interwoven. This paper examines relevant academic and policy literature and evidence on this relationship and explores the potential for a new form of development that simultaneously mitigates climate change, manages its impacts, and improves the wellbeing of people in poverty. First, as a key foundation, it outlines the backdrop in basic moral philosophy, noting that climate action and poverty reduction can be motivated both by a core principle based on the right to development and by the conventional consequentialism that is standard in economics. Second, it reviews assessments of the current and potential future impacts of weakly managed climate change on the wellbeing of those in poverty, paying attention to unequal effects, including by gender. Third, it examines arguments and literature on the economic impacts of climate action and policies and how those affect the wellbeing of people in poverty, highlighting the importance of market failures, technological change, systemic dynamics of transition, and distributional effects of mitigation and adaptation. Finally, the paper surveys the current state of knowledge and understanding of how climate action and poverty reduction can be integrated in policy design, indicating where further research can contribute to a transition that succeeds in both objectives.  \nJEL Codes: O130, Q540, Q580  \nKeywords: climate, poverty, development, growth, wellbeing.  \nIntroduction  \nClimate change, poverty, and action to tackle each are closely interwoven. In this paper we argue that an effective response to these challenges requires the understanding and creation of a new form of development that simultaneously mitigates climate change, manages its impacts, and improves the wellbeing of people in poverty. Failure to tackle climate change will dramatically increase poverty across its many  \nThe World Bank Research Observer  \n© The Author(s) 2023 . Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / THE WORLD BANK. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.  \n[https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lkad011](https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lkad011) 39:1–46  \nDownloaded from [https://academic.oup.com/wbro/article/39/1/1/7504628 by World Bank and IMF user on 02 February 2024](https://academic.oup.com/wbro/article/39/1/1/7504628 by World Bank and IMF user on 02 February 2024)  \ndimensions.1 Well-designed measures to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change can drive a new form of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive development, especially in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), which can offer avenues out of poverty for people both in the present and in the future.  \nThis paper examines a range of relevant theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between climate action and poverty reduction. While not an exhaustive survey, our examination indicates that the nature of the problems requires innovation beyond the standard models used for economic analysis, which poses avitally important research agenda. It must address complex dynamics, distributional consequences, and systemic change. Yet the science is very clear about the necessary urgency of action. 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