Overview
- Fosters knowledge to support the UN Sustainable Development Goal to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
- Comprehensively describes research, projects and practical action
- Provides government agencies, education institutions and non-governmental agencies with a sound basis to promote sustainability efforts
- Covers many countries, very international
- Fills a market need, being the world´s most comprehensive publication on the topic
Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (ENUNSDG)
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The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in develo** countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to search for integrated solutions to make development more sustainable. The United Nations has acknowledged the problem and approved the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. On 1st January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda officially came into force. These goals cover the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.
The Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals comprehensively addresses the SDGs in an integrated way. It encompasses 17 volumes, each one devoted to one of the 17 SDGs. This volume addresses SDG 13 "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts" and contains the description of a range of terms, which allow a better understanding and foster knowledge. Climate change is a threat to development with unprecedented impacts. Urgent action to combat climate change and development of integrated strategies on climate change mitigation and adaptation and sustainable development are critical for a sustainable future.
Concretely, the defined targets are:
- 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
- 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 from all sources to address the needs of develo** 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
- Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island develo** states, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
Ulisses Azeiteiro
Anabela Marisa Azul
Jeff Birchall
Federica Doni
Silvia Serrao Neumann
Dragan Nonic
Luis R. Vieira
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 400 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Action
Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Anabela Marisa Azul, Luciana Brandli, Pinar Gökcin Özuyar, Tony Wall
Series Title: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Earth and Environm. Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71063-1Due: 12 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7403
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7411
Topics: Sustainable Development, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Management and Policy