Earth Week 2021

EARTH WEEK FEATURE: Why Structural Inequities Belong in Climate Negotiations

EARTH WEEK FEATURE: Why Structural Inequities Belong in Climate Negotiations

For people already in poverty, climate change will prove devastating, as detailed in the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights’ 2019 report, Climate Change and Poverty. For many Bangladeshis displaced by floods and cyclones over the past thirty years, this is a daily fear. Morzina Begum, has been displaced six times, and has lost approximately $30,000 USD equivalent throughout the process — she now lives on a roadside.