Sustainable Development, Poverty Eradication and Reducing Inequalities

Joyashree Roy, Petra Tschakert, Henri Waisman, Sharina Abdul Halim, Philip Antwi-Agyei, Purnamita Dasgupta, Bronwyn Hayward, Markku Kanninen, Diana Liverman, Chukwumerije Okereke, Patricia Fernanda Pinho, Keywan Riahi, Avelino G. Suarez Rodriguez, Fernando Aragón-Durand, Mustapha Babiker, Mook Bangalore, Paolo Bertoldi, Bishwa Bhaskar Choudhary, Edward Byres, Anton Cartwright, Riyanti Djalante, Kristie L. Ebi, Neville Ellis,Francois Engelbrecht, Maria Figueroa, Mukesh Gupta, Amaha Medhin Haileselassie, Diana Hinge Salili, Daniel Huppmann, Saleemul Huq, Daniela Jacob, Rachel James, Debora Ley, Peter Marcotullio, Omar Massera, Reinhard Mechler, Shagun Mehrotra, Peter Newman, Karen Paiva Henrique, Simon Parkinson, Aromar Revi, Wilfried Rickels, Lisa Schipper, Jörn Schmidt, Seth Schultz, Pete Smith, William Solecki, Shreya Some, Nenenteiti Teariki-Ruatu, Adelle Thomas, Penny Urquhart, Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh  | 2018

Executive Summary

This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable development, including its focus on eradicating poverty and reducing inequality in their multidimensional aspects, and climate actions in a 1.5°C warmer world. These fundamental connections are embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The chapter also examines synergies and trade-offs of adaptation and mitigation options with sustainable development and the SDGs and offers insights into possible pathways, especially climate-resilient development pathways towards a 1.5°C warmer world.