Sustainable Development Goal 13. Combat climate change
The UN Secretary-General has proposed six climate-positive actions that governments need to take once they begin to rebuild their economies and societies:
- Green transition and decarbonisation: Investment must accelerate the decarbonisation of all aspects of our economy.
- Green jobs and sustainable and inclusive growth
- Green economy: makes societies and people more resilient through a transition that is fair to all and leaves no one behind.
- Investing in sustainable solutions: fossil fuel subsidies must end and polluters must pay for their pollution.
- Facing all climate risks
- Cooperation - no country can succeed alone.
To deal with a climate emergency, pandemic recovery plans must bring about long-term systemic changes that will change the trajectory of CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
In recent years, governments around the world have devoted considerable time and effort to developing plans to chart a safer and more sustainable future for their citizens. Getting them on board now as part of recovery planning can help the world recover better from the current crisis.
Sub-goals
13.1 Strengthening resilience and adaptability to climate change hazards and natural disasters in all countries.
13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning.
13.3 Improving education, raising awareness and human and institutional capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change, reduce impacts and provide early warning.
13.a Fulfillment of the commitment of developed countries that have signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to jointly mobilize $ 100 billion a year by 2020 from all sources to meet the needs of developing countries in the context of appropriate mitigation actions the implications and transparency of implementation, and the full implementation of the Green Climate Fund by capitalizing it as soon as possible.
13.b Promoting capacity-building mechanisms in the least developed countries and small island developing States for effective climate change planning and management, with a special focus on women, youth, local and marginalized communities.
As of April 2018, 175 countries have ratified the Paris Agreement, and 168 countries have announced their first nationally defined contribution to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
As of April 2018, 10 developing countries have successfully completed and presented their first iteration of their national adaptation plans in response to climate change.
Developed countries continue to make progress towards the goal of jointly mobilizing $ 100 billion annually by 2020 for mitigation actions.
Thanks to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change we know:
From 1880 to 2012, the average global temperature increased by 0.85 ° C. To put this into perspective, for every 1 degree of temperature increase, grain yields decrease by about 5%. Maize, wheat and other major crops experienced a significant reduction in global yields of 40 megatons per year between 1981 and 2002 due to a warmer climate.
The oceans have warmed, snow and ice have dwindled and sea levels have risen. From 1901 to 2010, the average global sea level rose by 19 cm as the oceans expanded due to warming and the ice melted.
The amount of sea ice in the Arctic has been declining over the next decade since 1979, with 1.07 million km of ice loss every decade.
Given current concentrations and current greenhouse gas emissions, it is likely that by the end of this century the increase in global temperature will exceed 1.5 ° C compared to 1850 to 1900 for all but one scenario. The world’s oceans will warm and the ice will melt. The average sea level rise is projected to be 24-30 cm by 2065 and 40-63 cm by 2100. Most aspects of climate change will continue for many centuries, even if emissions are stopped
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased by almost 50% since 1990.
Emissions grew faster between 2000 and 2010 than in any of the previous three decades
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