Event

Webinar: How to Maximize Climate & SDG Synergies? Identifying Opportunities and Navigating Trade-offs

Jason Veysey, who leads the SEI Initiative on Integrated Climate and Development Planning, was among the panelists at a UN webinar that addressed ways to maximize synergies between climate mitigation efforts and sustainable development goals.

19 January 2021

United States and Online

Event contact

Jason Veysey / jason.veysey@sei.org

This UN webinar (held on 19 January 2021) presented tools and methods that can help decision-makers identify synergies between climate mitigation and sustainable development goals (SDGs). Speakers offered lessons learned for local and national planning, and introduced decision-making tools to help planners navigate trade-offs and prioritize opportunities to realize climate and SDG co-benefits.

The webinar included three presentations on “Tools and methods that help decision-makers identify and act on climate/SDGs synergies”:

SEI’s Jason Veysey gave a presentation on assessing climate and SDG synergies using the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) tool.
Piotr Magnuszewski, research scholar at the Centre for Systems Solutions/ International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, discussed the “Nexus / SDGs Synergies Game“.
Sofia Gonzales-Zuñiga, a lead author at the New Climate Institute, discussed “SCAN-tool Methodology“.

The webinar also included three presentations on “Lessons and practices from national NDC [Nationally Determined Contribution] processes and planning with climate/SDGs synergies” from the experiences of three countries:

Kenya – presented by Anne Nyatichi Omambia, climate change coordinator, National Environment Management Authority.
Nepal – presented by Manjeet Dhakal, head of LDC Support Team, Climate Analytics.
Domican Republic – presented by Sara Gonzalez, head of international relations, National Council for Climate Change.