Climate risks are also strongly related to other inequalities, often but not always intersecting with poverty. AR5 found with very high confidence that differences in vulnerability and exposure arise from multi-dimensional inequalities, often produced by uneven development processes. These inequalities relate to geographic location, as well as economic, political and socio-cultural aspects, such as wealth, education, race/ethnicity, religion, gender, age, class/caste, disability and health status . Since AR5, a number of studies have confirmed and refined this assessment, especially also regarding socioeconomic inequality and poverty . Poor people more often live in exposed areas such as wastelands or riverbanks . Also, poor people lose more of their total wealth to climatic hazards, receive less post-shock support from their often-times equally poor social networks, and are often not covered by social protection schemes . Countries with high inequality tend to have above-average levels of exposure and vulnerability to climate hazards . Many socioeconomic models used in climate research have been found to have a limited ability to capture and represent the poor at a larger scale . However, an analysis of 92 countries found that relative income losses and other climate change impacts were disproportionately high among the poorest . There have also been advances in detecting and attributing the impacts of climate change and vulnerability at household scale and specifically on women's agency and adaptive capacity . The distribution of impacts and responses  affects inequality, not just between countries but also within countries  and between different people within societies. Distribution has so far largely been thought of in a geographical sense, but identifying those most at risk requires an additional focus on the social distribution of impacts, responses, and resilience, as influenced for instance by differential social protection coverage .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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