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Climate Action by Leal Filho, Walter; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; Azul, Anabela Marisa; Brandli, Luciana; Özuyar, Pinar Gökcin; Wall, Tony is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Climate Action about?

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to search for integrated solutions to make development more sustainable. The United Nations has acknowledged the problem and approved the "2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development". On 1st January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda officially came into force. These goals cover the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection. The Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals comprehensively addresses the SDGs in an integrated way. It encompasses 17 volumes, each one devoted to one of the 17 SDGs. This volume addresses SDG 13 "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts" and contains the description of a range of terms, which allow a better understanding and foster knowledge. Climate change is a threat to development with unprecedented impacts. Urgent action to combat climate change and development of integrated strategies

Author

Leal Filho, Walter; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; Azul, Anabela Marisa; Brandli, Luciana; Özuyar, Pinar Gökcin; Wall, Tony

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2019

Language

DE

ISBN

9783319958859