ENVIRONMENT
Targets
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Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries (13.1)
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Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning (13.2)
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Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning (13.3)
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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.a)
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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 (13.b)
STOP
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Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
CLIMATE CHANGE is...... NOW
Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow.
People are experiencing the significant impacts of climate change, which include changing weather patterns, rising sea level, and more extreme weather events. The greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are driving climate change and continue to rise. They are now at their highest levels in history. Without action, the world’s average surface temperature is projected to rise over the 21st century and is likely to surpass 3 degrees Celsius this century (UN, 2015).
CHANGE NEEDS TO HAPPEN....
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Climate Change = Sustainable Development
ENVIRONMENT
The links between climate change and sustainable development are strong and has major effects on the three areas of the envionment: land, water, and energy. All of which are componenets of the envrionment that are experience major effects from climate change. By focusing on each eleemnt, we can take one step at a time towards sustainable development
WATER
ENERGY
LAND
Melanie!!
What is water used for? Explore what water is... and how it can be used for both humans & ecycosystems
Understanding who has access to energy, what type energy and how we can be sustainable with what we have.
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From 1880 to 2012, average global temperature increased by 0.85°C.
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Oceans have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished and sea level has risen. (From 1901 to 2010, the global average sea level rose by 19 cm as oceans expanded due to warming and ice melted. The Arctic’s sea ice extent has shrunk in every successive decade since 1979, with 1.07 million km² of ice loss every decade)
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Given current concentrations and on-going emissions of greenhouse gases, it is likely that by the end of this century, the increase in global temperature will exceed 1.5°C compared to 1850 to 1900 for all but one scenario. (The world’s oceans will warm and ice melt will continue. Average sea level rise is predicted as 24 – 30cm by 2065 and 40-63cm by 2100. Most aspects of climate change will persist for many centuries even if emissions are stopped)
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Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased by almost 50 per cent since 1990
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Emissions grew more quickly between 2000 and 2010 than in each of the three previous decades
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It is still possible, using a wide array of technological measures and changes in behavior, to limit the increase in global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels
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Major institutional and technological change will give a better than even chance that global warming will not exceed this threshold