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Warming means unfair share for poor<\/a><\/h3>\n

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A bumper catch off the coast of northern Norway may be bad news for fishermen in southern waters.\u00a0Image:\u00a0<\/em>Bo Eide<\/a>\u00a0via Flickr<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As temperatures rise with climate change, the Earth\u2019s natural capital will change too \u2212 but there may be few winners, even among the wealthy.<\/strong><\/div>\n

LONDON, 5 March, 2016<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Climate change could seriously redistribute resources and reallocate wealth \u2013 but not in a fair way.<\/p>\n

In a reverse of the famous Robin Hood folklore, it could rob from the poor to give to the rich, according to researchers. Yet even the rich may not feel any richer.<\/p>\n

In one clear instance, as scientists have repeatedly warned,\u00a0fish stocks are likely to move away from the equator<\/a>\u00a0and towards the poles, as the\u00a0tropics heat up and expand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This means that at least one valuable resource will move away from some of the world\u2019s poorest nations, and in the direction of societies that are relatively wealthier \u2212 if only because economic power has for so long been vested in the temperate zones. And this shift will have economic consequences.<\/p>\n

Eli Fenichel, assistant professor of bioeconomics and ecosystem management at the\u00a0Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies<\/a>\u00a0in the US, says: \u201cPeople are mostly focused on the physical reallocation of these assets, but I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve really started thinking enough about how climate change can reallocate wealth and influence the prices of those assets. We think these price impacts can be really, really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Real cash value<\/strong><\/p>\n

Only last month, \u00a0Dr Fenichel identified a way of calculating a real cash value for what environmentalists call \u201cnatural capital<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Now he and other colleagues, in a\u00a0study for Nature Climate Change<\/a>, have started to think about where and for whom the cash might start accumulating. He has no immediate answer.<\/p>\n

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Warming means unfair share for poor A bumper catch off the coast of northern Norway may be bad news for fishermen in southern waters.\u00a0Image:\u00a0Bo Eide\u00a0via Flickr As temperatures rise with climate change, the Earth\u2019s natural capital will change too \u2212 but there may be few winners, even among the wealthy. LONDON, 5 March, 2016\u00a0\u2013 Climate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,369,1130,3548,681,3550,11565,868],"class_list":["post-18573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-natural-capital","tag-poor","tag-resources","tag-rich","tag-tim-radford","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18574,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18573\/revisions\/18574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}