Goal 13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
News
Q&A on Role of sustainable transportation to combat climate change
The UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport met on the margins of COP21 to discuss sustainable transport and climate change and its work plan for 2016. Here, the co-chairs, Carolina Toha, Mayor of Santiago, Chile and Martin Lundstedt, CEO of Volvo Group, share their views on the role of sustainable transport to combat climate change.
News
COP21: UN chief hails new climate change agreement as 'monumental triumph'
Meeting/event
COP 21/CMP 11 Meeting
Publication
The State of City Climate Finance
Publication
Urbanization and Climate Change in Small Island Developing States
Partnerships for SDGs
A Good Life is Simple
In the context of the European Year of Development (EYD 2015), the Climate Alliance has been coordinated the EYD 2015 campaign. The campaign’ s deliverables include art projection and events with Members of the European Parliament, the production and distribution of education materials and the publications of reports from Southern partners. The overall goal of this initiative is the shaping of a climate- friendly life.
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Goal 13 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
* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international,
intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international,
intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.