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Can social protection tackle emerging risks from climate change, and how? A framework and a critical review
Costella, Cecilia van Aalst, Maarten Georgiadou, Yola Reilly, Rachel McCord, Anna Holmes, Rebecca Ammoun, Jonathan Barca, Valentina
Costella, Cecilia
van Aalst, Maarten
Georgiadou, Yola
Reilly, Rachel
McCord, Anna
Holmes, Rebecca
Ammoun, Jonathan
Barca, Valentina
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2023-03-31
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Climate change is transforming the risks individuals and households face, with potentially profound socioeconomic consequences including increased poverty, inequality, and social instability. Social protection is a policy tool that governments have used to help individuals and households manage risks linked to income and livelihoods, and to achieve societal outcomes such as reducing poverty and inequality. Despite its potential as a policy response to climate change, the integration of social protection within the climate policy agenda is currently limited. While the concept of risk is key to both sectors, different understandings of the nature and scope of climate change impacts, their implications, and of the adequacy of social protection instruments to address them, contribute to the lack of policy and practice integration. Our goal is to bridge this cognitive gap by highlighting the potential of social protection as a policy response to climate change. Using a climate risk lens, we first explore how climate change drives risks that are within the realm of social protection, and their implications, including likely future trends in demand for social protection. Based on this analysis, we critically review existing arguments for what social protection can do and evidence of what it currently does to manage risks arising from climate change. From the analysis, a set of reconceptualised roles emerge for social protection to strategically contribute to climate resilient development.
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Costella, C., van Aalst, M., Georgiadou, Y. et al. (2023) Can social protection tackle emerging risks from climate change, and how? A framework and a critical review. Climate Risk Management, 40, 100501.
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© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2023.100501
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2212-0963