Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Goal 13 focuses on resilience to climate hazards, climate action in national policy and planning, education and capacity, climate finance and support for vulnerable countries and communities. The UN notes that the UNFCCC is the primary international forum for negotiating the global climate response.
What Goal 13 covers
N4SF groups the main policy areas from the official UN targets into this diagram for easier reading.
Goal 13 target list
Below are the United Nations targets for SDG 13.
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
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
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
Global goals become practical through local decisions.
The SDGs overlap across local housing, infrastructure, public services, environmental quality, economic opportunity and community participation. A single neighborhood decision can relate to several goals at the same time.
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