Climate Action is enshrined in only one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, but the work to stop or even reverse climate change touches nearly every goal. Experts at Climate Week events this week in New York City discussed solutions to six SDGs that are off track for completion by 2030 and demonstrated the inextricability of the climate from sustainable development.
Of the 844 million people worldwide who do not have basic water services, some 80 percent live in rural areas (UNICEF 2017). Two of the problems that small...