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 MORESDG Summit 2023
20-21 September 2023
New York City, US
2022 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 28)
7-18 November 2022
TBA
World Meteorological Day 2022
23 March 2022
worldwide
Regional Climate Week for the Middle East and North Africa
2-3 March 2022
United Arab Emirates[tentative]
World Wetlands Day 2022
2 February 2022
worldwide
Sustainable Energy for All Forum (SEforALL Forum)
11 January 2022
Kigali, Rwanda