Climate change mitigation measures demonstrate strong synergies with several Sustainable Development Goals

With the help of the IMAGE model and inputs from several peer-reviewed articles, the authors show that the number of synergies between selected climate change mitigation measures and other SDGs dwarf the number of trade-offs in all eleven regions they investigated. The magnitude of these synergies and trade-offs, however, varies by regional and socio-economic context. In high- and middle-income regions, the mitigation measures show few trade-offs that are generally associated with technology choices that could aggravate inequality and impact biodiversity. In low-income regions, some measures, especially land-use related ones, could interfere with efforts to reduce poverty, end hunger and improve well-being, if not complemented by additional policies that aim to protect the poor from increasing food and energy prices.