GOAL 13

CLIMATE ACTION

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

The Goal

ABOUT THIS GOAL

2023 was the hottest year in recorded human history. Climate change is no longer a future risk — it is reshaping lives now, in every part of the world. The communities contributing least to the problem are often hit hardest: coastal communities losing land to rising seas, farmers watching harvests fail, cities overwhelmed by heat and flood. SDG 13 calls for urgent action: cutting emissions, building resilience, delivering on climate finance commitments, and making sure that education and institutional capacity keep pace with the scale of the crisis.

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