Editing IPCC:AR6/WGIII/Chapter-17 (section)

=== 17.1.1 Integrating Climate Change and Sustainable Development in International Assessments ===

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Climate change not only poses a profound challenge to sustainable development, it is inexorably linked to it. From the early stages of the IPCC assessment process, this challenge and the inherent link between climate change and sustainable development have been well recognised. For example, the First Assessment Report (FAR) highlighted the relevance of sustainable development for climate policy. The Second Assessment Report (SAR) went further to include equity issues in its presentation of sustainable development. The Third Assessment Report (TAR) ( [[#Banuri--2001|Banuri et al. 2001]] ) made the link even stronger, noting that ‘parties have a right to and should promote sustainable development’ (as stated in the text of the [[#UNFCCC--2015|UNFCCC 2015]] (Article 3.4)), and offering an early review of studies integrating sustainable development and climate change. The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) ( [[#Sathaye--2007|Sathaye et al. 2007]] ) added an additional perspective to these interconnections, acknowledging the existence of a two-way relationship between sustainable development and climate change.

The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) ( [[#Denton--2014|Denton et al. 2014]] ; [[#Fleurbaey--2014|Fleurbaey et al. 2014]] ) and the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR1.5) ( [[#IPCC--2018|IPCC 2018]] ; [[#Roy--2018|Roy et al. 2018]] a) have arguably made the strongest links between climate and sustainable development to date. One of the key messages of AR5 was that the implementation of climate mitigation and adaptation actions could help promote sustainable development, and it emphasised the need for transformational changes in this regard. The AR5 also concluded that the link between climate change and sustainable development is cross-cutting and complex, and that thus the impacts of climate change are threatening the efforts being made to achieve sustainable development. The SR1.5 helped systematise these links by mapping the synergies and trade-offs between selected SDG indicators and climate mitigation ( [[#IPCC--2018|IPCC 2018]] ; [[#Roy--2018|Roy et al. 2018]] b) ( [[#17.3|Section 17.3]] ).

Despite the clear links between sustainable development and climate change being recognised from the early stages of the IPCC, climate change has often been portrayed as an environmental problem to be addressed chiefly by environmental ministries ( [[#Brown--2007|Brown et al. 2007]] ; [[#Munasinghe--2007|Munasinghe 2007]] ; [[#Swart--2007|Swart and Raes 2007]] ). However, this perception has evolved over time. It is now increasingly common to see governments and other actors understand the wider ramifications of a changing climate for sustainable development. In a growing number of studies, work on climate policies and just transitions towards sustainable development are framed as going hand in hand ( [[#Fuso%20Nerini--2019|Fuso Nerini et al. 2019]] ; [[#Dugarova--2017|Dugarova and Gülasan 2017]] ; [[#Sanchez%20Rodriguez--2018|Sanchez Rodriguez et al. 2018]] ; [[#Schramade--2017|Schramade 2017]] ; [[#Zhenmin--2019|Zhenmin and Espinosa 2019]] ).

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