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 similarly pressures on environmental systems affect livelihoods at the subglobal level unep a 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