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SDGs 13
Climate Action 氣候行動

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About the Goal

There is no country that is not experiencing the drastic effects of climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions are more than 50 percent higher than in 1990. Global warming is causing long-lasting changes to our climate system, which threatens irreversible consequences if we do not act.

The annual average economic losses from climate-related disasters are in the hundreds of billions of dollars. This is not to mention the human impact of geo-physical disasters, which are 91 percent climate-related, and which between 1998 and 2017 killed 1.3 million people, and left 4.4 billion injured. The goal aims to mobilize US$100 billion annually by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries to both adapt to climate change and invest in low-carbon development.

Supporting vulnerable regions will directly contribute not only to Goal 13 but also to the other SDGs. These actions must also go hand in hand with efforts to integrate disaster risk measures, sustainable natural resource management, and human security into national development strategies. It is still possible, with strong political will, increased investment, and using existing technology, to limit the increase in global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, aiming at 1.5°C, but this requires urgent and ambitious collective action.

 

沒有一個國家不在經歷氣候變化的劇烈影響。溫室氣體排放比1990年高出50%以上。全球變暖正在對我們的氣候系統造成長期的變化,如果我們不採取行動,就有可能造成不可逆轉的後果。

與氣候有關的災害造成的年均經濟損失高達數千億美元。這還不算是地質物理災害對人類的影響,這些災害有91%與氣候有關,在1998年至2017年間,有130萬人死亡,44億人受傷。該目標旨在到2020年每年調動1000億美元,以滿足發展中國家適應氣候變化和投資於低碳發展的雙重需要。

支持脆弱地區不僅將直接有助於實現目標13,也有助於實現其他可持續發展目標。這些行動還必須與將災害風險措施、可持續自然資源管理和人類安全納入國家發展戰略的努力同時進行。如果有強烈的政治意願,增加投資,並利用現有技術,仍有可能將全球平均氣溫的上升限制在工業化前水平的兩攝氏度,目標是1.5攝氏度,但這需要採取緊急和雄心勃勃的集體行動。

 

Reference: https://www.undp.org/sustainable-development-goals



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