Goal 13 - Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
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
Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
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Events
SEE MOREHigh-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) 2024
15-25 July 2024
New York City, US
UNEA-6
26 February - 1 March 2024
Nairobi, Kenya
2023 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 28)
30 November - 12 December 2023
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
GEO Week 2023
6-10 November 2023
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Vienna Energy Forum 2023
2-3 November 2023
Vienna, Wien, Austria
Arab Forum for Environment 2023
24-25 October 2023
Muscat, Masqat, Oman