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Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action (ESIN)

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
01 June 2023
Submission deadline
Ongoing
Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG 13) is to limit and adapt to climate change. It is one of 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The official mission statement of this goal is to "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts". SDG 13 has five targets which are to be achieved by 2030. They cover a wide range of issues surrounding climate action. The first three targets are outcome targets: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related disasters; integrate climate change measures into policies and planning; build knowledge and capacity to meet climate change. The remaining two targets are means of implementation targets: To implement the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and to promote mechanisms to raise capacity for planning and management. Along with each target, there are indicators that provide a method to review the overall progress of each target. The UNFCCC is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change. Papers in this collection address one or more of the 5 targets of SDG 13: 1. Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related disasters 2. Integrate climate change measures into policy and planning 3. Build knowledge and capacity to meet climate change 4. Implement the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 5. Promote mechanisms to raise capacity for planning and management

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  • Hassan A. Babaie Hassan A. Babaie  &

    Hassan A. Babaie

    Department of Geosciences Georgia State University 33 Gilmer Street SE P.O. Box 4105 Atlanta, GA 30302-4105 USA tel: 404 413 5766 fax 404 413 5768 email: hbabaie@gsu.edu

  • Armita Davarpanah, Ph.D. Armita Davarpanah, Ph.D.

    Armita Davarpanah, Ph.D.

    Dr. Armita Davarpanah is an assistant professor of environmental and health sciences at Spelman College. She has a B.S. degree in chemistry and M.S. and Ph.D. in geochemistry and GIScience, respectively. She applies GIScience to the spatial and temporal analyses of dynamic Earth and environmental processes. Her research integrates geospatial analysis and semantic knowledge modeling with ontologies of natural hazards, effects of climate change on water, energy, and food resources, impact of COVID-19 on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) indicator data, semantic modeling of rare earth element mineral system, urban environmental chal

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