Sustainable Development Goal 13
Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Goal 13 focuses on resilience to climate hazards, climate action in national policy and planning, education and capacity, climate finance and support for vulnerable countries and communities. The UN notes that the UNFCCC is the primary international forum for negotiating the global climate response.
Target-area diagram
What Goal 13 covers
This N4SF explanatory diagram groups the main policy areas addressed by the official United Nations targets for this goal.
Official United Nations targets
Goal 13 target list
The wording below is sourced from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs goal page.
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