Sustainable Development Goal 13

Sustainable Development Goal 13
Sustainable Development Goal 13
Mission statement	"Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts by regulating emissions and promoting developments in renewable energy"
Commercial?	No
Type of project	Non-Profit
Location	Global
Founder	United Nations
Established	2015
Website	sdgs.un.org

Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG 13 or Global Goal 13) is to limit and adapt to climate change. It is one of 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The official mission statement of this goal is to "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts".^[1] SDG 13 and SDG 7 on clean energy are closely related and complementary.^[2]^: 101

SDG 13 has five targets which are to be achieved by 2030. They cover a wide range of issues surrounding climate action. The first three targets are outcome targets. They aim to firstly strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related disasters. Secondly, to integrate climate change measures into policies and planning. And thirdly to build knowledge and capacity. The remaining two targets are means of implementation targets^[3]: To implement the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and to promote mechanisms to raise capacity for planning and management. Along with each target, there are indicators that provide a method to review the overall progress of each target. The UNFCCC is the main intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, nations collectively agreed to keep warming "well under 2 °C". However, with pledges made under the Agreement, global warming would still reach about 2.7 °C (4.9 °F) by the end of the century.^[4]

As of 2020, many countries are now implementing their national climate change adaptation plans.^[5]^: 15

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[:172-1] United Nations (2017) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 July 2017, Work of the Statistical Commission pertaining to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (A/RES/71/313)

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[:222-3] Bartram, Jamie; Brocklehurst, Clarissa; Bradley, David; Muller, Mike; Evans, Barbara (December 2018). "Policy review of the means of implementation targets and indicators for the sustainable development goal for water and sanitation". npj Clean Water. 1 (1): 3. Bibcode:2018npjCW...1....3B. doi:10.1038/s41545-018-0003-0. S2CID 169226066. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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