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2024
Projecting progress in sustainable development goals vis-à-vis climate action in climate-economy models
DATE: July 16th, 2024
AUTHORS: Alexandros Nikas
JOURNAL: PLOS Climate
TITLE: Projecting progress in sustainable development goals vis-à-vis climate action in climate-economy models
SHORT DESCRIPTION:The year 2015 was an important milestone in the world’s struggle for sustainability. Although mostly remembered for the landmark Paris Agreement, which formalised and operationalised a mechanism for globally coordinated and cooperative efforts to address the climate crisis, it also featured the UN-wide adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, embodied in seventeen distinct yet highly intertwined dimensions—the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The scientific community has since attempted to actively support the assessment of progress and prospects/trends towards sustainability using an array of tools as interdisciplinary and diverse as the SDG agenda itself. However, such studies are mostly static and capture an overview of how far we still need to go. This piece discusses six ways, in which the capacity to evaluate progress in SDGs vis-à-vis efforts to mitigate climate change using IAMs is currently being enhanced to offer robust and actionable policy prescriptions that may place climate policy in a holistic sustainable development context
JOURNAL LINK: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000449
ZENODO LINK: https://zenodo.org/records/12760230
SYNERGIES: IAM COMPACT
