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Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations have issued 17 ambitious goals to try and build a better, fairer, and more sustainable future for the world.

Sustainable Development Goal 13 aims to promote the need for a global response to combat climate change.

The effects of climate change are already being felt all around the world.

Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have built up in the atmosphere. These trap heat from the sun and make the planet warmer.

As the planet warms, weather patterns change, there are more extreme weather events, ice caps and glaciers melt, and sea levels rise. All of these having effects on people's lives, homes and incomes.

Climate action is a global responsibility that will require countries who produce large amounts of carbon emissions to urgently address how their economies work.

In 2015, 196 of the world's nations signed the which bound them to striving to keep the global temperature at no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

In order to achieve this goal, each nation will have to make significant changes:

• Reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases
• Developed nations will provide financial help to developing nations to achieve the goal
• Developing and sharing technological development to achieve the goal

Climate facts

• Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased by almost 50 per cent since 1990
• From 1901 to 2010, the global average sea level rose by 19 cm as oceans expanded due to warming and ice melted
• In order to limit global warming to 1.5°C, scientists recommend that by 2030 global emissions should be cut by 45% compared to 2010 levels

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