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Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts


Climate change presents the single biggest threat to development, and its widespread, unprecedented effects disproportionately burden the poorest and the most vulnerable. Urgent action is needed not only to combat climate change and its impacts but also to build resilience in responding to climate-related hazards and natural disasters.

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Targets List

Target13.1

Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.

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Target 13.2

Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning.

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Target 13.3

Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.

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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...

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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, ...

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