Livia Bizikova, director – SDG Knowledge Programme, IISD, @LiviaBizik, @IISD_news Livia's links knowledge and experiences to develop approaches to sustainable development, climate change adaptation and resilience.
This article considers the challenges Africa faces in implementing the Sendai Framework and recommends that besides "Africanizing" Sendai goals and strengthening the region's political commitment to disaster risk reduction (DRR), Africa should also develop a single framework that integrates DRR, sustainable development, climate change adaptation, and conflict prevention.
Consistent with disaster research and scholarship, Africa needs to develop a clear roadmap that integrates DRR, sustainable development, climate change adaptation, and conflict such that DRR wherever possible conducts a continuous conversation directly with health, education, investment, absolute poverty reduction, social protection, environmental sustainability, and conflict prevention.
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In 2015, we will see a remarkable convergence of global negotiations on international development, climate change and trade.
The need to join up disparate efforts on finance, sustainable development, climate change and a whole range of related challenges has been apparent for decades.
The document stated that 'the influence of these developments (climate change and upstream water use) on the total water availability is considered to be small.
It will focus on the current state of the global economy, sustainable growth, development and climate change, as well as investment, trade and energy.
"The stakes have never been higher, as the sustainable development goals, financing for development and climate change talks set the world's course for the foreseeable future.
Rapid population growth, economic development and climate change have exposed this region to increasing vulnerability to hydrologic drought.
Growth, trade, development, and climate change: 2015 will be a rendezvous of important multilateral initiatives.
