SDG GOAL 13 — CLIMATE ACTION
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
*Acknowledges that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
The Targets
13.1
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.2
Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.3
Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.a
Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.b
Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
Resources
- Metadata compilation for Goal 13— as of March 3, 2016.
2. United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs
3. The Sustainable Development Goals Fund
4. United Nations- Climate Change
- Official United Nations and Climate Change web presence- contains most UN Climate resources.
5. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- The Paris agreement and the UN Climate Change newsroom.
6. World Meteorological Organization
- Specialized agency of the UN, “dedicated to international cooperation and coordination on the state and behavior of the Earth’s atmosphere, its interaction with the land and oceans, the weather and climate it produces, and the resulting distribution of water resources.”
7. The United Nations Population Fund- Climate Change
- Climate Change can affect population science too, and the UNPF is looking ahead.
8. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
- The Sendai framework is the first major agreement of the post-2015 agenda, dealing with state and stakeholder responsibilities in disaster risks, potentially related to climate change.
