Climate Action

About This Goal

SDG 13 aims to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. This includes strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and integrating climate change measures into policies.

Key Targets

• 1 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.
• 2 13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning.
• 3 13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.
• 4 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.
• 5 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.