Climate change and poverty

I was so pleased with last week’s report on fighting climate change and poverty at the same time, I wrote it up as a longer piece for Celsias:

Poverty still affects the UK, with one in five people struggling to keep up with basic living costs. Climate change will affect these people first and hardest. With poorer housing, worse health and no insurance, they are more at risk from weather events and extremes of temperature. Since wealthy lifestyles account for a much larger percentage of CO₂ emissions, but the poor suffer its effects considerably more, climate change is a matter of social justice as well as an environmental concern. (read on…)