INSIDER: Leaving No One Behind in Advancing Climate Actions: Implications and Opportunities

The briefing examines the intersection of poverty eradication and climate action, arguing that the "leave no one behind" (LNB) principle is essential for ensuring that the poorest populations—who are most vulnerable to climate impacts—benefit from and participate in the energy transition. It outlines four key implications for climate policy: including the poor in decision-making, targeting them as implementers of adaptation and mitigation, maximizing direct benefits for them, and providing compensatory measures to offset regressive impacts like carbon taxes. The author notes that while many Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) mention inequality, few contain concrete measures to realize these benefits, suggesting that upcoming NDC updates provide a critical opportunity to integrate LNB principles.

• Climate change disproportionately affects the extreme poor, with 75 percent of this population relying on climate-sensitive activities like agriculture. The World Bank estimates that without a change in course, climate change could push an additional 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030.
• The "leave no one behind" (LNB) framework suggests four specific shifts in climate action: involving marginalized groups in decision-making, empowering them as implementers of climate solutions, designing actions to maximize benefits for the poor, and using compensatory measures to mitigate regressive effects of policies such as carbon taxes.
• Practical applications of inclusive climate action include Ghana's use of women farmers' groups for adaptation, Namibia's use of traditional agroecological knowledge, Indonesia's inclusion of smallholder palm oil farmers in sustainability initiatives, and France's 2017 Climate Change Solidarity Package which provides tax credits and incentives for low-income households to adopt energy efficiency and electric cars.
• Kenya's National Climate Change Action Plan 2018-2022 prioritizes the transition to clean cooking in rural areas to simultaneously improve human health, reduce household fuel costs, and lower deforestation emissions.
• Analysis of the first round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) via the Climate Watch online portal indicates that LNB-relevant Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets have been addressed in a limited and uneven manner, with few NDCs including concrete measures for inequality reduction.

APA

World Resources Institute (2018). INSIDER: Leaving No One Behind in Advancing Climate Actions: Implications and Opportunities. https://www.wri.org/technical-perspectives/insider-leaving-no-one-behind-advancing-climate-actions-implications-and-opportunities

Chicago

World Resources Institute. INSIDER: Leaving No One Behind in Advancing Climate Actions: Implications and Opportunities. 2018. https://www.wri.org/technical-perspectives/insider-leaving-no-one-behind-advancing-climate-actions-implications-and-opportunities.

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2018insider, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{INSIDER: Leaving No One Behind in Advancing Climate Actions: Implications and Opportunities}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2018}, month = sep, url = {https://www.wri.org/technical-perspectives/insider-leaving-no-one-behind-advancing-climate-actions-implications-and-opportunities}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }