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A report issued by the UN-convened Expert Group on Climate and SDG Synergy presents a number of recommendations urging governments to break down fragmentation and silos at national and international levels, to tackle the climate and sustainable development crises in tandem and achieve transformative change. The report is being launched before government delegates at a special event of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development on 16 July at UN Headquarters in New York.
"It is no longer feasible to treat climate change and sustainable development separately," the experts state in the report, "with over 80 percent of SDG targets directly linked to climate. But there is a way, by tackling these two critical agendas together, that we can multiply impacts and bridge investment gaps worth trillions of dollars."
Pointing to the setbacks on achieving both international climate and SDG goals, Under-Secretary-General Li Junhua of UN DESA and Executive Secretary Simon Stiell of UNFCCC, which co-convene the expert group, state in their preface that "deep transformative changes are needed to overcome the lack of progress." The report shows that "we have the solutions to make this possible," they state, and that "synergistic action must be at the heart of this transformation." (cited from UN webpage)
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