Climate change is a serious environmental and sustainable development challenge caused by past and current human development, and curbing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to change are global policy objectives. Climate change impacts are already being felt across the globe and they are guaranteed to get worse if unmitigated.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement provide a firm foundation for the coherent implementation of climate actions and sustainable development objectives at all levels. Progress made towards limiting global temperature increase would significantly ease the path to many other SDGs, such as those related to poverty, hunger, access to water, and terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Many of the SDGs and their targets can also be achieved in ways that would enable adaptive responses to climate change.
