Climate Change May Stamp Out Possibility Of Reaching SDGs, U.N. Climate Secretariat Member Says

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Climate change could put development goals beyond reach, U.N. official warns
“As global warming brings wilder weather, more harvest failures, and the risk of growing migration and poverty, ‘sustainable development as we think of it today may be out of reach,’ a top U.N. specialist in climate change losses warned on Wednesday. … [W]ith the planet heating up fast, serious threats — from expanding cities facing rising seas and floods to small islands watching their coral reefs die and water supplies turn salty — mean those ‘worthy’ global goals may no longer be the right focus, said Koko Warner of the U.N. climate change secretariat…” (Goering, 10/30).

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