Goal
Environmental sustainability [53]
Interlinkages
Climate change and sustainable development [54]
Targets
Limit global temperature rise to under 1.5 degrees, consistent with the latest climate science, through drastic emissions cuts and a fair sharing of the global carbon budget that takes into account historical emissions without resorting to offsets.
Need to put into place enablers that shield local populations from the harmful effects of climate change, and development policies that respect the rights of the people including indigenous communities and that companies respect the welfare of local communities.
Provide adequate and appropriate finance contributed by countries on the basis of historical responsibility for global warming to make reparations to all affected peoples (in line with the $100 billion per year promised in the 2010 Cancun Agreements).
Developed countries should commit to obligatory, additional, non-debt creating public finance to cover the full cost of adaptations to climate change.
Ensure sharing of safe, appropriate, ecologically and socially sound technologies unhindered by intellectual property rights.
Governments and international agencies should also develop appropriate mechanisms to prevent disasters and develop resilience strategies.
Shift to and expand renewable energy use.
The responses to water shortages/scarcity need to be emphasized especially in context of the dependence on agriculture in most Asian countries.
Adopt ecologically and socially sustainable production systems and technologies in manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, and mining.
Growing and changing populations and impending food security challenges must be interlinked and addressed in the new framework.
Arrest deforestation, overfishing, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, pollution and protect livelihoods of forest-dwellers and fishers.
The framework should restructure production and consumption patterns in both advanced and developing countries in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.