Strengthening the Global Response inthe Context of Sustainable
Development and Efforts to Eradicate
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Close link to Sustainable
Development (SD) and SDGs
• SD balances social well-being, economic
prosperity, environmental protection• SD supports and enables the systemictransitions and transformations required• UN Sustainable Development Goals
framework• poverty eradication• reducing inequalities• climate action
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1Close link to SD and SDGs
• Different pathways have different benefits andtrade-offs with SD• More avoided impacts on SD, eradicatingpoverty and inequality at 1.5oC than at 2oC• Adaptation/mitigation synergies maximised
and trade-offs minimized

Ashley Cooper/ Aurora Photos2Adaptation: synergies andtrade-offs• Synergies from adapting to 1.5°C• Reducing vulnerability of human and naturalsystems -> food, water, disaster risks, health,poverty, inequality, ecosystem services• Trade-offs, if interventions poorly designed
and implemented• Intensifying agriculture, expanding urban
infrastructure -> greenhouse gas emissions, wateruse, social and gender inequality, undermine healthand natural ecosystems

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3Adaptation: synergies andtrade-offs• Adaptation options that also mitigate
emissions -> synergies and cost savings• Increasing investment in physical andsocial infrastructure key enabling condition-> societal resilience, adaptive capacity

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4Mitigation synergies and trade-offs with the SDGs

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Mitigation: synergies and tradeoffs• More synergies than trade-offs• Net-effect depends on pace, magnitude, portfolio,
management of mitigation• Most synergies, least trade-offs in pathways withlow energy demand, low material consumption,
low-emissions diet

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Mitigation: synergies and tradeoffs• Economies that are highly dependent on fossil fuels• Mitigation creates risks for sustainable development• Diversified economy and energy sector• Redistribution policies to protect the poor andvulnerable can resolve trade-offs for a range ofSDGs• Investment needs for such complementary policies
are only a small fraction of the overall mitigation
investments
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Enabling conditions
Enhance the feasibility of options consistent
with limiting global warming to 1.5C:• Strengthened multi-level governance andinstitutions• Strengthened policy tools• Technological innovation• Changes in lifestyle and behaviour• Transfer and mobilisation of finance
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Evolution of financial systems• Realignment of savings and expenditure to lowemission and climate resilient infrastructureand services• Change incentives• Mainstream climate finance within financial andbanking systems• Low-risk, low interest financing• New public-private partnerships to de-risk climate
friendly investments and support small scale
enterprise/households
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9Multi-level action• Ambitious action supported by national and subnational authorities, civil society, private sector,
indigenous peoples and local communities• Mix of adaptation and mitigation action
implemented in participatory and integrated way• Local and regional governments supported bynational governments• Aligned with economic and SD• International cooperation is a critical part oflimiting warming to 1.5°C
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10Climate Resilient DevelopmentPathways• Strengthen SD and efforts to eradicate
poverty; ambitious mitigation andadaptation• Equity and social justice are coreelements of the societal and systems
transitions and transformations required

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11There is no safe level of climatechangeAshley Cooper/ Aurora Photos

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Each bit of warming matters•

Each year we delay matters•

Each choice at every level mattersWe are the answer“Humans are at the centre of global climatechange: their actions cause anthropogenic
climate change, and social change is key toeffectively respond to climate change.”
The scientific message is clear. The
response is now in the hands of society,governments and policymakers

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Thank you

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