The International Progress of Making Concerted Efforts to Promote Climate Action and Sustainable Development

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AbstractIn 2015, the international community adopted the Paris Agreement on climate change, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development. These international treaties outline a grand blueprint for the future of sustainable development. Tackling climate change within the framework of sustainable development has always been an important concern for many countries around the world, especially developing countries. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement are closely related. How to promote the realization of each country’s goals in a complementary and mutually conducive manner in different fields is of vital importance to the realization of the goals. Therefore, since the conclusion of the Paris Agreement, strengthening concerted efforts to promote climate action and sustainable development has become one of the key concerns for the international community, and much progress has been made in the implementation of the Paris Agreement. This article analyzes the progress of the above-mentioned two different political phases and the relationship between developing countries’ implementation of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in terms of each field, and studies the new trends of global actions on sustainable development and the development of global climate change governance, with a view to providing recommendations for China to better coordinate actions on promoting climate action and sustainable development.Keywords2030 Agenda for sustainable developmentThe sustainable development goalsNationally determined contributions (NDCs)Paris agreementClimate change