SDG13 Climate Action

As the world is struggling with the rapid-onset COVID-19 crisis, and while it is early to conclude which response strategies were the most successful, we can already start drawing some lessons to help shape our response to the slow-onset disaster of climate change. We share here seven such lessons on how to ensure that the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis will happen in a way that will still put the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement at the center of sustainable development efforts.

Society is experiencing extreme climate events and rapid biodiversity loss, alongside a rise in fake news and rapid technological innovation. How can we connect the dots between today’s biggest societal issues, the state of the planet now, and the future we are shaping? Our Future on Earth 2020 is a report synthesizing the latest Earth science alongside current events.

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, an unprecedented coalition has come together to launch “Earth School,” which provides free, high-quality educational content to help students, parents and teachers around the world who are currently at home. Initiated by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and TED-Ed, Earth School takes students on a 30-day “Adventure” through the natural world.

Storytelling is a powerful tool to connect and inform policymakers and communities on, for example, climate change adaptation and disaster preparedness among other areas.

Greetings from the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston! We are thinking of you during these turbulent times. While the current crisis has upended many of our projects and plans around the globe, we invite you to join us for an online conversation with Christiana Figueres on April 16, 2020 and to share your vision for the future in a Foresight Survey by Future Earth. Your responses will help inform an emerging global discussion on 'where we go from here?’ and shape recovery strategies for rebuilding.

Climate Bonds Initiative in partnership with HSBC, invites you to the online launch of the ASEAN Green Finance State of the Market 2019 report.

Join us for insights on key trends and developments for the green finance market in ASEAN in 2019, including the role that multilateral development banks could play in shaping the region’s green finance ecosystem, and what we may expect to see in 2020 for green finance in ASEAN.

This webinar is part of the FAO-UNDP “Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans” (NAP-Ag) Programme webinar series.

This webinar is part of the FAO-UNDP “Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans” (NAP-Ag) Programme webinar series.

It is estimated that the Paris Agreement will open USD 23 trillion in opportunities for climate-smart investments between 2016 and 2030. While countries have fixed an initial price tag to their NDC targets, global NDC costs vary greatly, and achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement means countries will require some combination of domestic budgetary allocation, private sector finance (both national and international), bi-lateral and multilateral finance mechanisms and development assistance to meet NDC commitments.

Decades of high economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region have transformed its socioeconomic landscape – lifting a billion people out of extreme poverty in the past two decades and raising living standards of even greater numbers. However, such growth has been accompanied by growing inequality of income and opportunity and is beginning to breach planetary limits, thus endangering the well-being of future generations. Yet, the Asia-Pacific region is not on track to achieve any of the 17 Goals by 2030 if we continue on our business-as-usual pathway.