SHAPE

SHAPE addresses the question of how climate protection and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be achieved together. As the SGDs are much broader and bring together environmental and social targets, this is not a matter of course. The project therefore pays special attention to creating positive synergies between different targets, and minimising or compensating for adverse side effects. Since different pathways towards the SDGs can be conceived (reflecting different societal, economic, technological and institutional trends and preferences) various Sustainable Development Pathways (SDPs) are being modelled and analysed.

• SHAPE will deliver a first set of different Sustainable Development Pathways (SDPs)that simultaneously achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in 2030 (or make as much progress towards them as possible), maintain sustainable development thereafter, and meet the climate targets set out in the Paris agreement.

• Within SHAPE, modellers and social scientists collaborateto allow for better integration of societal goals (e.g. governance aspects) in modelling and assessment of the SDPs.

• The development and assessment process of the SDPsis accompanied and supported by a broad-based stakeholder dialogue.

• Results from modelling a first SDP pathway(Soergel at al. 2021) have demonstrated that moving towards the socioeconomic targets of the Agenda 2030, while at the same time respecting the Paris climate target and other key planetary boundaries is possible, but requires forward-looking, integrative policy design.