Urgent Climate Action

Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Climate change is caused by human activities and threatens life on earth as we know it. With rising greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is occurring at ...

Goal 13 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

Urgent climate action can secure a liveable future for all - IPCC

This Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action and shows that, if we act now, we can still secure a liveable sustainable future ...

Facts about the climate emergency - UN Environment Programme

To prevent warming beyond 1.5°C, we need to reduce emissions by 7.6% every year from this year to 2030. · 10 years ago, if countries had acted on this science, ...

IRC Calls for Urgent Climate Action, Focus on Conflict Zones and ...

Increase funding for resilience, adaptation, and anticipatory action in communities grappling with conflict and climate change. Examples of the ...

Goal 13: Climate action - The Global Goals

TAKE URGENT ACTION TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACTS. ... Climate change is a real and undeniable threat to our entire civilization.The effects are already ...

This is why fighting climate change is so urgent

A warmer world — even by a half-degree Celsius — has more evaporation, leading to more water in the atmosphere. Such changing conditions put our agriculture, ...

Why Some Americans Do Not See Urgency on Climate Change

As the Earth's temperature continues to rise, climate change remains a lower priority for some Americans, and a subset of the public rejects ...

Climate Crisis - United States Department of State

Bold action to tackle the climate crisis is more urgent than ever. The record-breaking heat, floods, storms, drought, and wildfires devastating communities ...

IPCC: Urgent climate action can secure a liveable future for all

This report shows that we are at the moment heading towards 2.2-3.5 degrees warming. Warming of 3 degrees would have dramatic impact on human health.

C40 Cities - A global network of mayors taking urgent climate action

C40 Cities is a global network of nearly 100 mayors of the world's leading cities that are united in action to confront the climate crisis.

WHO demands urgent integration of health in climate negotiations ...

Ahead of the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference in Baku (COP29), the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for an end to reliance on fossil ...

What is climate change mitigation and why is it urgent?

Climate change mitigation refers to any action taken by governments, businesses or people to reduce or prevent greenhouse gases, or to enhance carbon sinks.

The urgency of climate action and the aim for justice in energy ...

Urgency and justice bring enabling and jeopardizing dynamics to energy transitions. There is much nuance within these dynamics.

NRDC's work to combat Climate Change

Climate change is the major environmental challenge of our time, and we know we must accelerate our efforts to adapt to the impacts that are already ...

The Climate Emergency - UNEP

The world is in a state of climate emergency, and we need to shift into emergency gear. Humanity's burning of fossil fuels has emitted enough greenhouse gases ...

On Climate Change, 'the Urgency Is Great' | SPH - Boston University

The IPCC warns that unless humans drastically reduce the use of coal, oil, and gas within the next 10 years, global temperatures will likely ...

IPCC report: Urgent climate action can secure a liveable future for all

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emphasizes that urgent climate action is needed to secure a ...

WHO issues urgent call for global climate action to create resilient ...

Today, at the World Health Organization (WHO), panelists made an impassioned plea for urgent climate action as it hosted a Strategic ...

Action for the Climate Emergency - Climate Change is Our ...

ACE educates, inspires and supports young people to lead the fight for their future. We ensure they have everything they need to understand the science and ...