Climate impact assessments inform climate change discussions. Integrated use of biophysical and economic models made it possible to move from assessments exclusively focused on the physical impacts, to assessments that incorporate the prospective effects on human welfare. Effects on poverty and livelihoods are better understood. However, even though structural inequalities exacerbate exposure and vulnerability to climate change, the nexus between climate change and inequality remains underresearched. We suggest ways to feature inequalities prominently in climate impact assessments hoping to encourage new research. We suggest how to use modeling capability to explore how existing inequalities may worsen in the face of climate hazards, through perturbation of natural resource systems, unemployment of production factors, a lack of access to human capital and basic services, and socioeconomic attributes that place people at a disadvantage. We also point to the policy analysis that one can develop and areas to improve it going forward.

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以不平等为视角的气候影响评估

气候影响评估为气候变化讨论提供信息。生物物理和经济模型的综合使用使得从仅关注物理影响的评估转变为包含对人类福祉的预期影响的评估成为可能。对贫困和生计的影响得到了更好的理解。然而，尽管结构性不平等加剧了气候变化的风险和脆弱性，但气候变化与不平等之间的联系仍未得到充分研究。我们建议在气候影响评估中突出不平等的方法，希望鼓励新的研究。我们建议如何使用建模能力来探索现有的不平等在面临气候危害时如何通过自然资源系统的扰动、生产要素的失业、缺乏获得人力资本和基本服务的机会，以及使人们处于不利地位的社会经济特征。我们还指出了可以发展的政策分析以及未来需要改进的领域。