Global Dialogue on Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Crisis: Building Back Better Aligned to the SDGs and the Paris Agreement

The document argues that economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic must avoid siloes by integrating development and climate resilience, ensuring that stimulus measures are stress-tested for climate risks, and empowering vulnerable populations through locally led planning. It highlights the need for reforming fossil fuel subsidies, utilizing resilience bonds, and providing debt relief to vulnerable countries to support a sustainable recovery aligned with the SDGs and the Paris Agreement.

• Economic recovery must bridge the gap between development and climate resilience, as adaptation can unlock economic potential and social inclusion, while investments in basic public services and health care enhance climate resilience.
• Recovery strategies should move beyond institutional and sectoral siloes to address the interconnectivity between climate, health, and biodiversity loss to better manage future complex crises.
• Economic stimulus measures and models should be stress-tested for climate impacts and multiple risks, and supply chains should be redesigned to be more sustainable and potentially more regionally-based.
• Financial mechanisms for resilience should include the use of resilience bonds, the reform of fossil fuel subsidies, and the provision of debt relief for vulnerable countries.
• Effective recovery requires a shift from a 'beneficiary' frame to locally led planning, ensuring vulnerable populations have a voice in shaping responses and supporting South-South learning.

APA

World Resources Institute (2020). Global Dialogue on Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Crisis: Building Back Better Aligned to the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. https://files.wri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/bmu-wri-dialogue-2.pdf

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Global Dialogue on Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Crisis: Building Back Better Aligned to the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. 2020. https://files.wri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/bmu-wri-dialogue-2.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2020global, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Global Dialogue on Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Crisis: Building Back Better Aligned to the SDGs and the Paris Agreement}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2020}, month = may, url = {https://files.wri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/bmu-wri-dialogue-2.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }