The significant overlaps and linkages between development and adaptation practice and a lack of conceptual clarity about adaptation pose a conundrum for scholars , who raise concerns that this potentially leads to trade- offs or mislabelling . This framing of adaptation and development can result in competition between attainment of sustainable development and policies to reduce the impacts of climate change . Such trade-offs are illustrated by  who use a baseline development trajectory based on current trends to project progress on SDGs by 2030. This work concluded that only marginal gains are likely to be achieved under that pathway over the next decade .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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