Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Climate Change and SDGs

Dear Colleagues,

Among all SDG goals, SDG13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. However, as climate change presents the single biggest threat to humans, its widespread and unprecedented impacts make it extend far beyond SDG 13, and be closely connected to all other SDGs. More precisely, according to WMO, seven climate indicators (CO₂ concentration, ocean acidification, GMST, OHC, sea-ice extent, glacier mass balance, and sea-level rise) pose direct risks to sustainable development (WMO-No. 1271).

More evidently, climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme events, such as heat waves, droughts, floods and tropical cyclones, aggravating water management problems, reducing agricultural production and food security, increasing health risks, damaging critical infrastructure, and interrupting the provision of basic services, such as water and sanitation, education, energy, and transport.

To hold warming below 1.5 °C and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, science demands that greenhouse gas emissions must urgently peak and achieve carbon neutral by 2050. At the same time, scientists are intensely working on various climate-related projects to combat climate risks. To collect work on this topic, we are establishing this series that aims to further raise the awareness of climate scientists and promote academic communication in this field. The work that we welcome includes, but is not limited to, climate projection, climate dynamics, climate modeling, extreme weather, climate change governance, climate adaptation and mitigation, climate economics, renewable energy, and GHG emission reduction. Interdisciplinary work on the above topics is particularly welcome.

Dr. Pallav Purohit
Prof. Dr. Xiaodong Yan
Dr. Shaohong Wu
Guest Editors

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