Global ambition: a collective response to climate change
Climate — Global
With a stronger concentration of national leaders who recognize the need to act, what can we now realistically hope to achieve on climate action?
Climate action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Targets
Indicators
Target
13.1
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
Indicators
13.1.1
Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
13.1.2
Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
13.1.3
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
Target
13.2
Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
Indicators
13.2.1
Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
13.2.2
Total greenhouse gas emissions per year
Target
13.3
Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
Indicators
13.3.1
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment
Target
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
Indicators
13.a.1
Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025
Target
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
Indicators
13.b.1
Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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Is 2021 the turning point for a clean energy future?
Climate — Global
After years of rhetoric and little action, is this year finally the moment when political will, technological advancement, and ESG investment combine to set the Earth on a path to net zero?
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Save our species: halting biodiversity loss needs systemic change
Biodiversity — Global
Without action, this century will see many more species go extinct. Halting biodiversity loss calls for all countries to act now to transform how we produce, consume, and manage resources
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Coordinating disparate sources of finance to achieve the SDGs
Financing — Global, Latin America and the Caribbean
If generating the finance to achieve the SDGs seemed a tall order pre-pandemic, it looks much harder now. We must rapidly accelerate the take-up of financial instruments for sustainable development, and attract a wider range of investors, if we’re to meet the 2030 deadline
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America recommits to climate action and sustainability: can it get the world back on track?
Climate — US and Canada
The US is once again committed to tackling climate change. Can it succeed, and take the rest of the world with it?
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For the world’s growing urban populations, the ‘new normal’ must mean better and sustainable places to live and work, and ways to travel, for all – not just a privileged few
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Space-D: Innovation for the SDGs
Data and monitoring — Middle East and Northern Africa
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority is harnessing the power of space
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Are nations thinking, and acting, for the long term?
Data and monitoring — Global
Six years after signing up to sustainable development and climate action, are countries’ plans fit for purpose to make long-term change?
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Climate is just one of nine identified ‘planetary boundaries’, beyond which humanity’s future comes under threat. We must ensure the SDGs succeed within these critical limits
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Weaning the world off fossil fuels
Energy — Middle East and Northern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
What is holding up progress on the transition to carbon neutrality, and what must we do to speed it up?
