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WSDS 2025 calls for collaborative and inclusive approach for climate action

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March 10, 2025

An urgent collective action, leading to partnerships among various stakeholders is the need of the hour to address the multifaceted challenges facing the world today, an international summit organised by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) here this week has underscored.

- ASHA RAMACHANDRAN

WSDS 2025 calls for collaborative and inclusive approach for climate action

Living up to its theme, "Partnerships for Accelerating Sustainable Development and Climate Solutions", the three-day World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) 2025 that concluded on Friday (7 March), highlighted the critical role of collaborative partnerships in addressing complex sustainability challenges and environmental concerns.

The challenges confronting the world are complex and interconnected, necessitating collective action on an unprecedented scale, the summit underscored. Partnerships hold the key to addressing the issues by accelerating problem-solving and fostering implementation, the participants felt.

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