An overlapping roadmap
‘Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’= 17 SDGs with their associated 169 targets.
Interconnected goals:
all the goals are interdependent ; complementary. aligns with our FYPs.
climate change, the 13th SDG, will be governed as per United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Treaty.
ISSUES IN ACHIEVEING THE GOALS : paucity of funds, difficulties of data availability and poor capacity at various levels.
SDGs and climate change:
poverty increases vulnerability to climate change.
improving resilience to global warming : HOW > BY making our cities sustainable, setting up better sanitation facilities, system-wide energy efficiency, reducing consumption, making drinking water and energy services accessible to all.
CC is hard to predict in India. Why ? because of monsoon variability.