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== 1.4 Strengthening the Global Response ==

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This section frames the implementation options, enabling conditions (discussed further in Cross-Chapter Box 3 on feasibility in this chapter), capacities and types of knowledge and their availability (Blicharska et al., 2017) <sup>[[#fn:r239|239]]</sup> that can allow institutions, communities and societies to respond to the 1.5°C challenge in the context of sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also addresses other relevant international agreements such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Equity and ethics are recognised as issues of importance in reducing vulnerability and eradicating poverty.

The connection between the enabling conditions for limiting global warming to 1.5°C and the ambitions of the SDGs are complex across scale and multi-faceted (Chapter 5). Climate mitigation–adaptation linkages, including synergies and trade-offs, are important when considering opportunities and threats for sustainable development. The IPCC AR5 acknowledged that ‘adaptation and mitigation have the potential to both contribute to and impede sustainable development, and sustainable development strategies and choices have the potential to both contribute to and impede climate change responses’ (Denton et al., 2014) <sup>[[#fn:r240|240]]</sup> . Climate mitigation and adaptation measures and actions can reflect and enforce specific patterns of development and governance that differ amongst the world’s regions (Gouldson et al., 2015; Termeer et al., 2017) <sup>[[#fn:r241|241]]</sup> . The role of limited adaptation and mitigation capacity, limits to adaptation and mitigation, and conditions of mal-adaptation and mal-mitigation are assessed in this report (Chapters 4 and 5).

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