What are the critical challenges the world faces in meeting international climate change and sustainable development targets? That was the topic of discussion at a side event this week hosted by Future Earth and its partners at the Bonn Climate Change Conference. The event, called “Reframing the Climate Debate: Enhancing the Paris Agreement and SDG Linkages,” addressed The World in 2050 project, a new effort to develop pathways to sustainable development within safe planetary boundaries.

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Integrating national SDG, NDC, and LTS processes with
enhanced research capacity
Prof. Nate Hultman
Director, Center for Global Sustainability
University of Maryland School of Public Policy

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Kiribati

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Engine of Ambition
Scoping
Target
ImplementData
Review &
Discusss
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NDC Process

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Linking across processes
Scoping
Target
ImplementData
Review &
Discuss
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Scoping
Target
ImplementData
Review &
Discuss
Scoping
Target
ImplementData
Review &
Dicusss
NDC Process
LTS Process
SDG Assessment

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Timor-Leste

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Linking the Policy and Analytical
Processes
1. Future sustainable development pathways can be co-
produced by policy makers, analysts, and other
stakeholders
2. These conversations generate goals for near-term targets,
long-term strategies, and sustainable development
3. Analysis conducted by research groups with global
expertise can be conducted in partnership with
universities or other research capacity within country
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TWI 2050 Project Can Support this Process by
providing robust analysis, leveraging broader
coalitions of research, and integrating this with
multiple dimensions of NDC, LTS, and SDGs

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Fiji

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Contact
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cgs.umd.edu
publicpolicy.umd.edu
email: hultman@umd.edu
Photos from COP23 Pacific Photo Competition
1. Jafet Potenzo Lopes,Timor-Leste
2. Humans of Kiribati,Kiribati
3. Spencer Nigel Robinson, Fiji
https://cop23.com.fj/cop23-pacific-photo-competition