ABSTRACT
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) defined in Agenda 2030 focus attention on these mal-development challenges. Agenda 2030 also underscores the need to address all the SDGs as integrated, indivisible parts of a whole system of development, including climate change and its impacts. The scale and spread of change required to address climate change, combined with the recognition of essentially integrated, indivisible approaches, is best captured by the now-common parlance of achieving sustainability transformations. The scientific community globally is trying to unravel the complexities of this integrated and indivisible world we live in and explain the synergies and trade-offs involved in following particular paths of development on the SDGs. To be fair, there has been an increasing emphasis on gender mainstreaming in policy framing and implementation in the last decades. That gender equality is one of the SDGs adopted in 2015 has placed the issue higher on the global political agenda has also helped.
