Out of the over 5,600 events that will be taking place all over Europe during the ESDW 2019, 2,041 events currently address SDG 13: Climate Action, which seeks to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Out of the over 5,600 events that will be taking place all over Europe during the ESDW 2019, 2,041 events currently address SDG 13: Climate Action, which seeks to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
SDG 13 aims to:
- 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.
Progress being made towards achieving SDG 13
- The year 2017 was one of the three warmest on record and was 1.1 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial period. An analysis by the World Meteorological Organization shows that the five-year average global temperature from 2013 to 2017 was also the highest on record. The world continues to experience rising sea levels, extreme weather conditions (the North Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest ever recorded) and increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases. This calls for urgent and accelerated action by countries as they implement their commitments to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
- As of 9 April 2018, 175 Parties had ratified the Paris Agreement and 168 Parties (167 countries plus the European Commission) had communicated their first nationally determined contributions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat.
- In addition, as of 9 April 2018, 10 developing countries had successfully completed and submitted the first iteration of their national adaptation plans for responding to climate change.
- Developed country Parties continue to make progress towards the goal of jointly mobilizing $100 billion annually by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions.
To find out more about the ESDW Events dealing with SDG 13: Climate Action, please visit the Activities section on the ESDW website.
