What does climate change mean for sustainable development?

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Benjamin Sovacool

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Jul 16, 2019, 8:47:35 AM7/16/19

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Good morning all,

An international team of researchers including myself at SPRU but also KTH in Sweden, the International Energy Agency in Paris, Colorado School of Mines in the USA, UCL in the UK, Politecnico di Milano in Italy, UBC in Canada, and University of New South Wales in Australia have a Perspective in this month’s Nature Sustainability about the importance of both climate change and climate action and the SDGs.

As we argue, the international community has committed to combat climate change and achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here we explore (dis)connections in evidence and governance between these commitments. Our structured evidence review suggests that climate change can undermine 16 SDGs, while combatting climate change can reinforce all 17 SDGs but undermine efforts to achieve 12. Understanding these relationships requires wider and deeper interdisciplinary collaboration. Climate change and sustainable development governance should be better connected to maximize the effectiveness of action in both domains. The emergence around the world of new coordinating institutions and sustainable development planning represents promising progress.

You can read it at: https://rdcu.be/bKseL

Francesco has a blog article at: https://sustainabilitycommunity.nature.com/users/266273-francesco-fuso-nerini/posts/50758-what-does-climate-change-mean-for-sustainable-development

A short press release is here: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/all?id=49099

And if you’re into Tweeting: https://twitter.com/SussexUniPress/status/1150794330002604035

Very much hoping the community will continue to build on this work!

Sincerely,

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Benjamin K. Sovacool, Ph.D
Professor of Energy Policy

Director of the Sussex Energy Group

Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)

University of Sussex Business School

Jubilee Building, Room 367