Title: Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Exploring the Linkages
Authors: Cordelia O. Idoko, Ph.D, Paul C. Ezinna, Ph.D, & David C. Nwogbo, Ph.D
Volume: 9
Issue: 9
Pages: 80-86
Publication Date: 2025/09/28
Abstract:
Climate change is a contemporary global socio-economic and ecological challenge, that threatens the existence of humans. It is a developmental problem borne out of the ingenuity of man's exploitation of nature, and will require man's ingenuity to be addressed. Climate change is a common global challenge to sustainable development. Consequently, the objective of this study is to explore the linkages between climate change and sustainable development, obstacles to the linkages, and recommend the way forward from the growing reality of global climate challenge to a sustainable development paradigm based on a neutral or low-carbon economy. This study adopted documentary research method. Leveraging the concept of win-win, the study discovered that successfully addressing climate change is consequential or inter-linked to achieving sustainable development.