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The future of climate-resilient development is local

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Climate-resilient development provides a framework to address the interlinked challenges of climate change, biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. We discuss how these global goals can be translated to the local scale so that local governments, businesses, communities and citizens can help to implement them.

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    Aromar Revi & Ketaki Ghoge

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Revi, A., Ghoge, K. The future of climate-resilient development is local. Nat Hum Behav 8, 1635–1637 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01968-8

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