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Sustainable Development Goals and climate change adaptation in cities

The Sustainable Development Goals provide a window of opportunity for creating multidimensional operational approaches for climate change adaptation in cities.

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Sanchez Rodriguez, R., Ürge-Vorsatz, D. & Barau, A.S. Sustainable Development Goals and climate change adaptation in cities. Nature Clim Change 8, 181–183 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0098-9

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