Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals: The need for building resilience

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Global warming is increasing the severity of flooding and other hazards, with negative impacts on livelihoods and on countries’ ability to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Besides mitigating the drivers of climate change, there are steps countries can—and must—take to adapt to the new reality.

The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance - of which Mercy Corps is a member - calls on policymakers and donors to increase funding for building flood resilience and to incorporate resilience and systems thinking into national development plans and strategies, so that floods and other hazards do not need to derail countries’ efforts to reach the SDGs.