SDG13 - Climate Action: Combatting Climate Change and its Impacts (Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals)

SDG 13 aims to ‘take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact’. This book demonstrates the potential for innovation in implementing SDG13 despite its associated challenges. The book features global success stories and uses empirical and science-based analysis to explore a wide range of practical implementation mechanisms, enabling conditions, and monitoring and reporting tools. Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals comprises 17 short books, each examining one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The series provides an integrated assessment of the SDGs from economic, legal, social, environmental and cultural perspectives. Half Title Page Series Page Title Page Coppyright Page Contents About the Authors Acknowledgements Executive Summary 1-Introduction 2-What are the Global Sustainable Development Goals? 2.1. Introduction 2.2. The Implementation of Agenda 2030 and the SDGs: A Global and National Perspective 2.3. Actions to Implement the SDGs 2.4. The Calculation of the SDG Indicator at ‘Country’ Level 3-What is the SDG 13? 3.1. SDG 13 and the Main Focus on Climate Change 3.2. SDG 13 Targets and Indicators Target 13.1: Strengthen Resilience and Adaptive Capacity to Climate-related Disasters Target 13.2: Integrate Climate Change Measures into Policy and Planning Target 13.3: Build Knowledge and Capacity to Meet Climate Change Target 13.A: Implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Target 13.B: Promote Mechanisms to Raise Capacity for Planning and Management 4-Climate Change Trends: Understanding SDG 13 Local Agenda and Key Interactions Frameworks 4.1. Climate Change Agreement Signed in December 2015 in Paris (COP21) 4.2. Interactions Frameworks 5-Practical Tools and ­Mechanisms for SDG 13 ­Implementation 5.1. Setting the Local Agenda: Governments and Public Sector 5.2. Localisation of the SDGs 5.3. Inclusiveness and the Participatory Approach 5.4. Private Sector and Business Context 5.5. Planning for SDG 13 Implementation: Climate Risk Assessment 5.6. Innovative Financial Mechanisms: Green and Sustainable Finance European Commission: Projects on Sustainable Finance: EU Commission Regulations 24 May 2018 5.7. ESG and Sustainable Finance Methodologies for Interpreting Sustainable Finance 5.8. Mobilising Green and Sustainable Finance 6-Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting on SDG 13 Implementation 6.1. New Trends in Corporate Reporting 6.2. From Voluntary to Compulsory Disclosures 6.3. SDGs and Global Reporting Initiative 6.4. SDGs and Integrated Reporting 7-Conclusions Appendix References Further Readings Index SDG13 - Climate Action: Combatting Climate Change and its Impacts will consider empirical and science-based analysis to explore a wide range of practical implementation tools and mechanisms, enabling conditions, and monitoring and reporting tools, to demonstrate the potential innovation in implementing SDG13.