Autumn Gold shed – shining like a bright orange something. Hopefully it will calm down soon, but the paint colour is definitely different to the colour on the can.
The SDG 13 is “Climate Action” – Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
In this case I think the graphic is wrong. I think we need to be educated by young people – they seem to have a much more balanced approach than many adults. The targets are pretty tame:
- Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
- Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
- Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
- 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
- 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
This week I was asking a friend about the temperature records in Siberia. The UK is experiencing record temperatures. I am suffering a bit from the temperature and I didn’t go out till late in the afternoon.
We hear a lot about the Paris Convention – but so far it has only gathered a third of the emission reductions we need.
But can we afford it? In the last 20 years the cost of climate disasters was over a million lives and over a trillion dollars. In the USA alone there are over 1.5 million people displaced as a result of natural disasters. Sadly the people doing most of the polluting are the rich countries, and the people doing most of the suffering are the poor global south.
This is one of the reasons I went to Nicaragua this year – to see how they are working to come back from damage. In a nutshell, a political embargo led to deforestation which makes farming really difficult. Now the rain patterns are changing and making it difficult to farm – farmers are afraid to risk all their seed so they are only planting a fraction of the crops they did before.
Read about how you can help to make amends and bring justice to the world here