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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26 February - 1 March 2024
Nairobi, Kenya
2023 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 28)
30 November - 12 December 2023
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
35th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MOP 35)
23-27 October 2023
Nairobi, Kenya
SDG Summit 2023
19-20 September 2023
New York City, US
Climate Ambition Summit 2023
18 September 2023
New York City, US
8th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum
28 August - 1 September 2023
Incheon, Republic of Korea