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In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

[New] Most people in the world are becoming more aware of risks from climate change, and more concerned that human activity may be contributing to it.
[New] The world is way off-target in containing global warming and at risk of reaching disastrous climate tipping points.
[New] Biden's once-in-a-generation effort to tackle climate change and create jobs could kill jobs, too, specifically the steady, fixed-location work provided by coal mines and power plants.
[New] In a race to tackle climate change, dozens of the world's biggest economies have adopted targets for net zero emissions by 2050 and are cutting fossil fuels and boosting clean energies.
[New] More than 30 governments around the world have already adopted national H2 strategies as part of their climate plan, creating a huge opportunity.
[New] The Climate Action Bill approved by government commits Ireland to halving greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade and achieving net-zero by 2050.
[New] In order to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of keeping warming under 1.5 °C - a goal scientists warn must be achieved to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis - gas production and consumption must drop by 40% worldwide over the next decade.
[New] Innovative Financial Initiatives for Africa will help close adaptation finance gaps, enhance access to existing finance and mobilize new public and private sector investment.
[New] Projections from the UN's climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that to halt global warming at 1.5 C - beyond which the worst impacts of rising temperatures are expected - global emissions will need to reach net zero by around 2050, or sooner.
[New] Over the 30 to 50-year period covered by much of the COVID-19 lending, changes in global average temperatures alone could cause GDP to drop by tens of percentage points in some countries.
[New] A long-term infrastructure plan to keep distributing and using fossil fuels runs counter to Whitmer's 2050 carbon-neutrality goal and could derail U.S. climate change targets more broadly.
[New] The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has undermined Africa's ability to tackle climate change, as multiple systemic shocks are now simultaneously threatening African communities: a health crisis, an economic crisis, and a food security crisis.
[New] Around the world, low-income communities are most at risk from the climate crisis: higher temperatures threaten their crops and produce, as well as their health.
[New] In Egypt, climate change could decrease national production of many crops, ranging from -11% for rice to -28% for soybeans, by the year 2050.
[New] One of the key ways the American Jobs Plan tackles climate change is by wiping out taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuel companies.
[New] The global wind power industry reached an all-time high in 2020 in the size of facilities that came online, but investments must at least triple by 2030 to meet climate targets.
[New] The past failures of market-based climate approaches in the U.S. serve as a stark warning of what to expect if fossil fuel industry lobbyists get their latest wish and convince politicians to allow them to keep doing business as usual - while working to move to a national carbon pricing system.
[New] Climate change, a direct cause of many core disasters across the globe continues to increase the impacts and risks of disasters such as wildfires and floods.
[New] By 2030, the United States needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50-65 percent below 2005 levels to limit climate change to 1.5 °C of warming.
[New] Climate change, biodiversity loss, and rapidly declining soil fertility are critically damaging the health of people and the planet, dislocating societies, and threatening food systems around the world.

Last updated: 11 April 2021

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