Human well-being within planetary boundaries: Integrating climate policies with the UN 2030 Agenda

Dr Bjoern Soergel, 26 October 2021.
In 2015 the international community set up the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Together, they form an ambitious agenda for ensuring decent living standards for all while simultaneously protecting the climate and our ecosystems. However, five years into these agreements, reviewing the progress towards the targets is sobering, and an ambitious and integrated strategy is needed more than ever. In a modelling analysis covering the energy, land and climate systems as well as all 17 SDGs, we show that a combination of carbon pricing, international climate finance, national redistributive policies, and lifestyle change in high-income countries would succeed in meeting the 1.5°C target while simultaneously enable large progress towards the SDGs.
Bjoern's paper is available here: rdcu.be/csoFt
This seminar is part of a series being hosted by the Climate and Energy College in 2021 that is supported by the Strategic Partnership for Implementation of the Paris Agreement.