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That future is framed within the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) along with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development agreed upon by all member nations of the United Nations in 2015. Major efforts are also needed to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss (SDGs 12–15) in the US and abroad.
All this corroborates what I wrote at the beginning of the year on how India and China are going full speed against climate change. According to new findings from ClimateActionTracker , India and China are actually years ahead of their climate commitments.
ClimateActionTracker described the amended goal a “significant step forward from the previous 26% reduction target” but said a 60% reduction was needed to put Japan on a 1.5°C Obviously, the landscape of nature will be altered, and they want to protect their natural biodiversity.”.
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