Summary for Policymakers 2017 (SPM)
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Abstract

The Paris Climate Change Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals together represent nothing less
than a global strategy to prevent our planet’s temperature from reaching disastrous levels and to foster and
support resilient and sustainable, low-emissions development for everyone.


To this end, policies need to be set in place now, technologies developed, matured, commercialized and deployed
at scale, and practices and behaviors of economic actors need to move ever faster towards low-emission and
sustainable business and investment.