But the reality is that today’s climate policy does little to tackle the climate-related problems of the world’s poor.2 And it does virtually nothing to help with the vast array of nonclimate issues that the world’s poor struggle with every day. In fact, climate policies often make life worse specifically for the poor. This is true both in rich countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, and in the poorest countries, especially those in Africa and Asia. Today’s blinkered climate policies are in fact putting the world’s worst-off countries on a slower path to progress and
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