Sustainable Energy and Climate Change

SDG 13 asks governments to “take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts”, including by strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries; by integrating climate-change measures into national policies, strategies and planning; by improving education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate-change mitigation and adaptation; and by implementing developed-country parties’ commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to mobilize substantial funds to support climate action across the globe, leaving no one behind. This chapter explores the links between SDG 13 with progress in SDG 7, highlighting the close relationship between these two sustainable development goals and the need to better integrate them in future energy policy.

Sustainable Development Goals:

Affordable and Clean Energy

Climate Action