Impacts of the implementation of response measures on intergenerational equity, gender, local communities, Indigenous Peoples, youth and people in other vulnerable situations
Assessing and analysing the impacts of the implementation of response measures is one of the four work areas of the forum on the impact of the implementation of response measures and its KCI. Towards this end, this technical paper contributes to activity 9 of the KCI’s six-year workplan. The paper identifies and assesses the impacts of the implementation of response measures taking into account intergenerational equity, gender considerations and the needs of local communities, Indigenous Peoples, youth and people in other vulnerable situations.
Through its comprehensive study of the impacts, the paper also achieves the following two objectives
(i) The paper fills the current gap where there are limited studies that quantify and assess the economic and social impacts of response measures on people in vulnerable situations. Notably, the literature examined in this technical paper reveals that where this research exists it mainly focuses on the policymaking process and participation, and is largely adaptation-centric which emphasizes vulnerabilities and capacity to adapt.
(ii) The paper considers a select set of mitigation policies consistent with pathways to holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and with pathways to limiting the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.