Despite the potential effectiveness and efficiency of integrating mitigation and adaptation under a common CRD framework, gaps persist in our knowledge about the enabling conditions for synergies, due to the limited number of examples and even fewer evaluations. Potential benefits may be achieved by pursuing multi-level governance approaches, that means integrating decision making at the local level with coordination at other levels, by actors and agencies simultaneously pursuing multiple other priorities . For example, pursuing climate-resilient land use pathways integrating climate policy within the land use sector requires a governance policy environment that combines multiple policy aims, including urban growth, soil conservation and water management alongside mitigation and adaptation. Facilitating climate-resilient land use pathways combining the aims of climate change adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development requires a governance environment with:  internal climate policy coherence between mitigation and adaptation objectives and policies,  external climate policy coherence between climate change and development objectives;  vertical policy integration that mainstreams climate change into sectoral policies and  overarching governance structures that facilitate horizontal policy integration for cross-sectoral coordination  as well as sector policies integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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