2.1 Sustainable Development Goals

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”

SDG

13 Climate Change

11 Sustainable Cities & Communities Targets

Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations

By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management Indicators

By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels. Indicators

Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population

Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies Nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications Total greenhouse gas emissions per year Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment The strengthening of institutional, systemic and individual capacity-building to implement adaptation, mitigation and technology transfer, and development actions

Direct economic loss in relation to global GDP, damage to critical infrastructure and number of disruptions to basic services, attributed to disasters

Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population

Proportion of urban solid waste regularly collected and with adequate final discharge out of total urban solid waste generated, by cities Annual mean levels of fine particulate matter (e.g. PM2.5 and PM10) in cities (population weighted)

Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030

Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies