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IGES/LCS-RNet side-event at COP23 "Linkage between NDC and SDGs – synergies
and trade-offs"
Organised by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Date: 9 November 2017, 15:00-16:30
Venue: COP23 Japan Pavilion (@ Bonn Zone)

Aim of the side-event:
To promote measures against global warming based on the Paris Agreement, and
to ensure transition to decarbonised societies, it is important to link
long-term targets/strategies with short- or mid-term concrete policy
targets.  As of August 2017, 155 “Nationally Determined Contributions
(NDCs)” were submitted to UNFCCC (from 182 countries). In 2015, the 2030
Agenda for 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was adopted. The global
goal to combat climate change is one of the most crucial and urgent SDGs.
This is because current actions will have a profound and everlasting
influence on the future of the environment as well as the human race.
Moreover, many actions aimed at tackling climate change will also help
achieve other SDGs – such as ensuring access to affordable clean energy and
building resilient infrastructure.

This side-event aims to present: 1) sectoral and concrete measures to tackle
climate change under NDCs in each country; 2) prospects to achieve such
measures; and 3) synergies and trade-offs between certain measures and SDGs.
It also aims to share information contributing to attaining and improving
NDCs in the future, and will call for further discussions.

Speakers:
- Mikiko Kainuma, Senior Research Advisor, IGES
- Stefan Lechtenböhmer, Director, Future Energy and Mobility Structures,
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
- Rizaldi Boer, Executive Director, Center for Climate Risk and Opportunity
Management, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia
- Yann Briand, Coordinator of the Working Group Transport, Deep
Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), IDDRI
- Eric Zusman, Research Leader, Sustainable Governance Centre, IGES