In terms of institutional features, climate change will be analysed as a “global public good” (GPG). This is certainly the case with climate change, the “safe” boundaries of this space have been passed (Rockstrom and others, 2009). Similarly, pressures on environmental systems affect livelihoods at the sub-global level (UNEP, 2011a). The resulting unsustainability has distributional aspects, including infragenerational elements: poor groups and countries depend relatively more on the use of natural resources to secure livelihoods and development, moreover, there are gendered asymmetries in environmental burden bearing.