Navigating Climate Change and Sustainable Development Goals Action

Every measure taken to mitigate climate change impacts has a direct reflection on all the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Climate change action does not help achieve goal f SDGs ie: Climate change action but also helps in accelerating goal 1 ie: no poverty by providing equal access to the means and products with universal rights of equality and distribution of resources where even the vulnerable, marginalized and indigenous rights are taken care of. If climate-related impacts are reduced, communities across the geographies get the opportunity to improve their living. Goal 2 No hunger, where the resources are produced and meets the needs of present without compromising future risks by progressive and strategic distribution of resources. Goal 3: good health and wellbeing where there is universal access to treatment and diagnosis. Impacts of greenhouse gases emissions causes severe respiratory and other climate induced comobilities. Goal 4 : Quality Education : if the impacts of climate are mitigated, there will be a safe places where everyone has a universal right for quality education which provides employment opportunities and reduces economic disparities. Goal 5: Gender equality; impacts of climate are most often visible across the women and they are more vulnerable however the mitigation considers uniform share of actions where the opportunities strengthens gender equality. Goal 6 of clean and safe water. Goal 7 clean and green energy where renewables take the edge over fossil fuels. Goal 8: economic growth and employment. Goal 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure, goal 10: reduced inequalities, goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible production and consumption. Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: life below water, Goal 15: life on land, Goal 16 : peace, justice and institutions and Goal 17 : Partnership for Goals.

Countries across the geographies now have to embrace regulatory locally determined contributions (LDCs) much prior to NDCs commitments. Targets set are not always achieved as they are procedural preparedness but not policy and regulatory responsibility. So, when countries as part of their global stocktake process update their NDCs early next year in 2025, they need to prepare a procedural requirement for regions and states within their countries and commit for its incorporation in global stocktake by as early by 2027. Hollow commitments and targets are a trap for non-negotiation making developed countries to further upscale their development efforts putting the burden on the LIDs, SIDs and developing countries.

At the governance level consensus has to made by the annexe and non-annexe countries to come up with process, procedures and modalities of setting LDCs as a separate regulatory document which local states and regions need to submit it at the national level and then all these needs to be cumulatively assessed and made into NDCs.

This conduce was aimed at placing simple yet rational points for the decision and policy makers to heed through in their thinking towards implementation of penetrative mitigation actions which are viable and visible. Policies fail as we do not implement nor work strategically in processed approach for meetings it. So sit across and implement and not develop standardized procedural rulebook which entities and Communities do not support.