Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat
climate change and its impacts
Climate
change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting
national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities and
countries dearly today and even more tomorrow.
People
are experiencing the significant impacts of climate change, which include
changing weather patterns, rising sea level, and more extreme weather events.
The greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are driving climate change
and continue to rise. They are now at their highest levels in history. Without
action, the world’s average surface temperature is projected to rise over the
21st century and is likely to surpass 3 degrees Celsius this century—with some
areas of the world expected to warm even more. The poorest and most vulnerable
people are being affected the most.Affordable, scalable solutions are now
available to enable countries to leapfrog to cleaner, more resilient economies.
The pace of change is quickening as more people are turning to renewable energy
and a range of other measures that will reduce emissions and increase
adaptation efforts.
But
climate change is a global challenge that does not respect national borders.
Emissions anywhere affect people everywhere. It is an issue that requires
solutions that need to be coordinated at the international level and it
requires international cooperation to help developing countries move toward a
low-carbon economy
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598 million people in Africa alone have no access to electricity. Without electricity families have no clean source of light, leaving millions to rely on expensive and dangerous alternatives such as homemade kerosene lamps. These lamps are a poor source of light; they emit toxic black smoke, eat up to 15% of a family’s income and are extremely hazardous.
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Scientists agree: to stay within the global carbon budget and avoid dangerous warming, the vast majority of all proven coal, oil and gas reserves must stay in the ground and fossil fuel combustion must end by mid- to late-century
There is no country in the world that is not experiencing first-hand the drastic effects of climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, and are now more than 50 percent higher than their 1990 level. Further, global warming is causing long-lasting changes to our climate system, which threatens irreversible consequences if we do not take action now.
ReplyDeleteThe annual average losses from tsunamis, tropical cyclones and flooding amount to hundreds of billions of dollars, requiring an investment of US$6 billion annually in disaster risk management alone. The goal aims to mobilize $100 billion annually by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries and help mitigate climate-related disasters.
Helping more vulnerable regions, such as land locked countries and island states, adapt to climate change must go hand in hand with efforts to integrate disaster risk measures into national strategies. It is still possible, with the political will and a wide array of technological measures, to limit the increase in global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This requires urgent collective action.
Facts and figures
+0.85°C
From 1880 to 2012, average global temperature increased by 0.85°C.
-1.07 million km²
The Arctic’s sea ice extent has shrunk in every decade since 1979, with 1.07 million km² of ice loss every decade.
+19 cm
From 1901 to 2010, the global average sea level rose by 19 cm as oceans expanded due to warming temperatures and melting ice.
+50%
Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and are now more than 50 percent higher than their 1990 level.
-5%
For each 1 degree Celsius of temperature increase, grain yields decline by about 5 percent.
+400%
Since 1970, the number of natural disasters worldwide has more than quadrupled to around 400 a year.
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There is no country in the world that is not seeing first-hand the drastic effects of climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, and are now more than 50 percent higher than their 1990 level. Further, global warming is causing long-lasting changes to our climate system, which threatens irreversible consequences if we do not take action now.
ReplyDeleteThe annual average losses from just earthquakes, tsunamis, tropical cyclones and flooding count in the hundreds of billions of dollars, requiring an investment of US$ 6 billion annually in disaster risk management alone. The goal aims to mobilize $100 billion annually by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries and help mitigate climate-related disasters.
Strengthening the resilience and adaptive capacity of more vulnerable regions, such as land locked countries and island states, must go hand in hand with efforts to raise awareness and integrate measures into national policies and strategies. It is still possible, with the political will and a wide array of technological measures, to limit the increase in global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This requires urgent collective action.
Addressing climate change is one of 17 Global Goals that make up the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. An integrated approach is crucial for progress across the multiple goals.
The Earth’s climate is changing, with severe consequences for our daily lives and the resilience of our countries. Climate change is disrupting national economies, People are experiencing changing weather patterns, rising sea levels, and extreme weather events.
ReplyDeleteGreenhouse gas emissions from human activities driving this change continue to rise. They are now at their highest levels in history. Globally averaged temperatures in 2017 were 0.90 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean, according to NASA. 2016 was the third consecutive year in which temperatures were more than 1 degree Celsius above late nineteenth-century levels. To put this into perspective, each one degree Celsius of temperature increase in global mean temperature is estimated to reduce average global yields of wheat by 6%, rice yields by 3.2%, and maize yields by 7.4%.
ReplyDeleteWhen averaged over all of the world’s oceans, absolute sea level has risen at an average rate of 0.06 inches per year from 1880 to 2013. Since 1993, however, average sea level has risen at a rate of 0.11 to 0.14 inches per year—roughly twice as fast as the long-term trend. Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased by almost 50% since 1990 with emissions increasing more quickly between 2000 and 2010 than in each of the three previous decades.
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ReplyDeleteWithout action, the world’s average surface temperature is projected to rise over the 21st century and is likely to surpass 3 degrees Celsius this century – with some areas of the world expected to warm even more. The poorest and most vulnerable people are being affected the most. Climate change also exacerbates disasters and combating it is absolutely vital to guaranteeing our survival and the wellbeing of future generations.