SDG 13- Climate Action: A summary of how the FRESH Framework and school programs can help to achieve and monitor this UN Goal
This summary explains how various school-based and school-linked programs support global actions to achieve this goal. The achievement of this goal involves five sectors; including Development Aid, Welfare/Social Protection, Finance/Taxation, Employment and Education & Training, The FRESH Framework and other sources enables us to identify six school programs and four multi-component approaches as well as the indicators related to those school strategies, Five global initiatives. involving schools as a key partner in achieving this goal have also been identified in this summary.
This summary explains how various school-based and school-linked programs support global actions to achieve this goal. The achievement of this goal involves five sectors; including Development Aid, Welfare/Social Protection, Finance/Taxation, Employment and Education & Training, The FRESH Framework and other sources enables us to identify six school programs and four multi-component approaches as well as the indicators related to those school strategies, Five global initiatives. involving schools as a key partner in achieving this goal have also been identified in this summary.
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Excerpts from UN Description of this Goal:
Goal #13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Climate change presents the single biggest threat to development, and its widespread, unprecedented impacts disproportionately burden the poorest and most vulnerable. Urgent action to combat climate change and minimize its disruptions is integral to the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The global nature of climate change calls for broad international cooperation in building resilience and adaptive capacity to its adverse effects, developing sustainable low-carbon pathways to the future, and accelerating the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions. On 22 April 2016, 175 Member States signed the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Climate change often exacerbates disasters. Between 1990 and 2013, more than 1.6 million people died in internationally reported disasters, with annual deaths trending upwards. As a result, more countries are acting on the imperative to implement national and local disaster risk reduction strategies. In 2015, 83 countries had legislative and/or regulatory provisions in place for managing disaster risk. Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change are responsible for providing a range of national reports on their efforts to implement the agreement. In order to help countries move forward on climate action, a global stocktaking was established, in the context of the Paris Agreement, to assess collective progress every five years. As parties scale up climate change action, enhanced cooperation, capacity-building and access to financial and technical support will be needed to help many countries realize their priorities, including those identified in intended nationally determined contributions and national adaptation plans. Developed countries have committed to mobilizing, by 2020, $100 billion a year in climate financing from a wide variety of sources to help address the needs of developing countries.The Green Climate Fund, a mechanism within the Framework Convention created to assist developing countries in adaptation and mitigation practices, is an important delivery vehicle for this financing. Climate change is already affecting the most vulnerable countries and populations, in particular the least developed countries and the small island developing States. The preparation of national adaptation programmes of action under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is helping the least developed countries address urgent and immediate needs, with support from the Least Developed Countries Fund and the Least Developed Countries Expert Group. Read more >> |
School Approaches and Programs that address this Goal:
There are several school multi-intervention programs and single interventions that promote climate action and alleviate the impact of climate change on students, families and schools. These programs are often grouped and coordinated in these multi-component approaches: These school-based and school-linked policies, programs and practices are effective in supporting this goal: The core components of the FRESH Framework also address this goal in these ways: Schools help to develop these skills, values within students related to this goal: |
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Current & Recent Global/UN Initiatives to Achieve this Goal:
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Current & Recent Global School Initiatives related to this Goal:
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Overview of UN Targets for this Goal:
13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries 13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning 13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning 13.a 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 13.b 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 * Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international,intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change. |
School-Related Indicators from the FRESH Framework & School Programs/ Approaches
The following indicators are included in the FRESH Framework, its thematic applications on various health, social, safety and economic problems and other sources or updates on the FRESH Monitoring and Evaluation Guidance. The indicators describe the type, frequency and data sources of monitoring that can be done. As well, the FRESH Framework provides suggestions for monitoring at the national and school levels. As well, the progress being made in relation to the implementation and maintenance of these core components and cross-cutting themes in the FRESH Framework can be monitored in relation to this goal: These school-related organizational and systems capacities should also be monitored in relation to this goal: |