2018; Onwutuebe, 2019; Garcia et al., 2020). Likewise, both climatic and non-climatic threats to development, such as conflict , may seriously undermine capacity to formulate and implement adap- tation policies, and design planning pathways . The risk of conflict associated with climate change has great potential to undermine other development goals . Where sustainable development lags and human vulnerability is high, there is also often also a severe adaptation gap . The SDGs may provide important cues on how to close the adaptation gap: climate action needs to be prioritised where past and future climate change impacts threaten SDGs, and where investment in SDGs im- prove capacity for adaptation .
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