Tackling climate change as a single SDG could backfire - Opinion

"If development goals aim for adaptation only, without aiming for disaster risk reduction across all hazards, then resilience cannot be achieved," warns Ilan Kelman in his opinion piece in SciDevNet. He argues that "Placing climate change within the wider contexts of disaster, development and sustainability will tackle both adaptation and mitigation, but not at the expense of other concerns. No sector should neglect climate change and no sector should be dominated by climate change".

Ilan Kelman is a reader in risk, resilience and global health at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and the Institute for Global Health, University College London, United Kingdom. He can be contacted via http://www.ilankelman.org/contact.html and @IlanKelman