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, _________________________ 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 Falmer, East Sussex, BN1 9SL United Kingdom http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/373957 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sussexenergygroup/ UK: 01273 877128 International: +44 1273 877128 Email: b.sovac...@sussex.ac.uk<mailto:b.sovac...@sussex.ac.uk> Editor in Chief Energy Research & Social Science http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy-research-and-social-science/ Co-Founder Energy and Social Science Network www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EASSN<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EASSN> [Sussex Business School logo] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/93107CD5AE4BB14F965835AE970D42BC0118371BED%40EX-SHA-MBX2.ad.susx.ac.uk.
