2.1 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
The resilience of a city is embedded in each of the Sustainable Development Goals. Similar to the dimensions of sustainability and resilience, the SDG’s are interrelated. With regards to the climate emergency, the implications of climate change directly impacts the ability to achieve the other SDG’s. The effects of climate change are evident in the face of other global challenges. Societal stresses such as impoverished communities are reinforced due the effects of acute shocks such as flooding and earthquakes. If the number of climate hazards continues to rise, tackling other SDG’s such as (1) Ending poverty, (2) Zero Hunger, (3) Health and Wellbeing, (6) Clean Water and Sanitation and (10) Reducing Inequalities becomes increasingly difficult (UN, 2016). To construct a critical evaluation framework, the most relevant SDG’s for building climate resilience have been identified along with a series of selected targets and indicators demonstrated in Figure 7.
SDG 11 “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”
SDG 13 “Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts” Figure 5. Climate Resilience SDG’s (UN, 2015)
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