Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG 13) is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals developed by the United Nations.
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts[edit | edit source]
13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.a: Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.b: Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
Relevance to linguistics[edit | edit source]
To raise awareness concerning knowledge on languages, language endangerment and language diversity.
Relevant information for specific language speakers and minorities on their own languages.
Commitment and funding for education, language revitalization and maintenance etc.
Long-term strategies for language use and maintenance.
Keeping the impact on the climate in mind when planning to travel to research or revitalization program locations.
