How will the climate and nature crises affect people in poverty?

People living in poverty in the UK are more affected by climate change and nature loss than people who are not. Why? Because people in poverty live in areas with more exposure to environmental impacts and cannot afford protections to mitigate the effects of environmental crises on their lives.

The impacts are disproportionate. They are also unfair, because people in poverty have contributed far less to the causes of the climate and nature crises.

It’s a moral imperative that policies put in place to respond to the climate and nature crises do not make the significant inequality and poverty that currently exists in the UK even worse.

It’s also an essential factor in successful policy implementation. Environmental policy needs to be designed so that it’s not more difficult for those on lower incomes to make the changes required to contribute towards the UK’s net zero goals.

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