Sustainable Resilience : linking Climate-Related Economic Losses to Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals in Europe

The authors investigate whether progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is associated with the magnitude of climate-related economic losses across European countries. Drawing on typological classifications, disaggregated SDG indicators, and Granger causality tests, the study explores dynamic interactions between development performance and climate-related vulnerability. While no stable correlation emerges across all cases, a pattern of reactive adaptation is observed in high-loss countries, where improvements in SDG 13 often follow damaging events. These findings underscore the importance of aligning development policy with climate resilience frameworks and highlight the need for stronger integration between long-term sustainability planning and risk governance strategies. [Publisher's Text]