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Across Europe, Green political parties are struggling to make electoral inroads, partially due to the perception that climate measures are financially burdensome for average people.

The notion that the environmental movement is championed by the well-off, those unbothered by electricity bills, carbon pricing or the cost of clean technology, has led to a political backlash. This was observed in the recent European Parliament elections, in which the Greens lost seats to the right of the political spectrum.

Ensuring a “just transition”, in which the costs of moving to a carbon-neutral world do not fall on the most vulnerable, is seen as a means to ensure greater societal buy-in for the climate movement.

The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) has examined the just transition in eight global cities.

For two years, the IHRB investigated the impacts of built environment decarbonisation policies, including renovation programmes, retrofit subsidies and new energy-efficient buildings, determining whether these measures were alleviating inequality.

Giulio Ferrini, Head of Built Environment with the Institute for Human Rights and Business, joins The Urban Report to discuss climate action and equity in cities.

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