Environmental\n problems like climate change\, biodiversity loss\, overfishing\, or waste \ndisposal can have significantly negative impacts on human wellbeing. \nMuch research has been devoted to\n the problem-solving quality of environmental policy measures. Yet it is\n frequently disregarded that environmental politics can also have \nconsiderable (re)distributive effects on national and international \nlevels.
\n\nDomestically\,\n politics that are targeted exclusively at mitigating ecological \nproblems are likely to reinforce differences in wealth. For instance\, \ntransport politics that are limited to reducing\n private fuel consumption by raising gas petrol prices may particularly \nlower the mobility of poorer segments of the population. \nInternationally\, the distributive effects of environmental politics are \nparticularly pronounced in North-South relations. Most recent\n environmental agreements contain clauses on technology transfer and \nfinancial support. But it remains contested whether this suffices to \nbalance the unequal burdens that many agreements impose on developed and\n developing countries.
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