SDG13 - climate action : combatting climate change and its impacts /

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Author / Creator:Doni, Federica, author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 122 pages).
Language:English
Series:Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Ser.
Concise guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12591648
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Other authors / contributors:Gasperini, Andrea, author.
Torres Soares, João, author.
ISBN:9781787569157
1787569152
9781787569171
1787569179
1787569187
9781787569188
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based upon print version of record.
Summary:SDG13 - Climate Action: Combatting Climate Change and its Impactswill consider empirical and science-based analysis to explore a wide range of practical implementation tools and mechanisms, enabling conditions, and monitoring and reporting tools, to demonstrate the potential innovation in implementing SDG13.
Other form:Print version: Doni, Federica SDG13 - Climate Action : Combatting Climate Change and Its Impacts Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited,c2020 9781787569188
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What are the Global Sustainable Development Goals?
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. The Implementation of Agenda 2030 and the SDGs: A Global and National Perspective
  • 2.3. Actions to Implement the SDGs
  • 2.4. The Calculation of the SDG Indicator at 'Country' Level
  • 3. What is the SDG 13?
  • 3.1. SDG 13 and the Main Focus on Climate Change
  • 3.2. SDG 13 Targets and Indicators
  • Target 13.1: Strengthen Resilience and Adaptive Capacity to Climate-related Disasters
  • Target 13.2: Integrate Climate Change Measures into Policy and Planning
  • Target 13.3: Build Knowledge and Capacity to Meet Climate Change
  • Target 13.A: Implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  • Target 13.B: Promote Mechanisms to Raise Capacity for Planning and Management
  • 4. Climate Change Trends: Understanding SDG 13 Local Agenda and Key Interactions Frameworks
  • 4.1. Climate Change Agreement Signed in December 2015 in Paris (COP21)
  • 4.2. Interactions Frameworks
  • 5. Practical Tools and ­Mechanisms for SDG 13 ­Implementation
  • 5.1. Setting the Local Agenda: Governments and Public Sector
  • 5.2. Localisation of the SDGs
  • 5.3. Inclusiveness and the Participatory Approach
  • 5.4. Private Sector and Business Context
  • 5.5. Planning for SDG 13 Implementation: Climate Risk Assessment
  • 5.6. Innovative Financial Mechanisms: Green and Sustainable Finance
  • European Commission: Projects on Sustainable Finance:
  • EU Commission Regulations 24 May 2018
  • 5.7. ESG and Sustainable Finance
  • Methodologies for Interpreting Sustainable Finance
  • 5.8. Mobilising Green and Sustainable Finance
  • 6. Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting on SDG 13 Implementation
  • 6.1. New Trends in Corporate Reporting
  • 6.2. From Voluntary to Compulsory Disclosures
  • 6.3. SDGs and Global Reporting Initiative
  • 6.4. SDGs and Integrated Reporting
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Further Readings
  • Index.