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Local Authority Capacity for Climate Action

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Climate change is one of the most important socio-environmental issues today. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) fifth assessment is clear on the human influence on the climate system and the widespread impacts it has on human and natural systems (IPCC 2014). On the other hand, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) defines it as “a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods” (UNFCCC 2011: 2). Evidence of climate change include shifting weather patterns, rising sea level from global warming, prolonged droughts and floods.

To tackle climate change, actions must come from governments, cities, regions, businesses, and investors. These actions should strive toward implementing the Paris Agreement, which formally acknowledges the urgent need to scale up...

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  1. Department of Sociology, Winona State University, Winona, MN, USA

    Krishna Roka

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  1. FTZ-ALS, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences FTZ-ALS, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Ctr Neurosci & Cell Biology, 1 Floor, Univ Coimbra, Edf Fac Medicina, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. Centre for Work Related Studies, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Silvia Serrao Neumann

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Roka, K. (2019). Local Authority Capacity for Climate Action. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Climate Action. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_12-1

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