Climate Change: Equality

(asked on 22nd July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of climate change on social and economic inequality in the UK.


Answered by
Baroness Coffey Portrait
Baroness Coffey
This question was answered on 31st July 2019

The Government has not made such a specific assessment though we do consider the distributional impact of our interventions on different groups, including low income households, in our adaptation planning.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/climate-change-second-national-adaptation-programme-2018-to-2023

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