LibGuides: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Goal 13: Climate Action

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Goal 13: Climate action (UN SDGs - targets & indicators)
Goal 13 - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
UN Framework on the Convention on Climate Change
The Paris Agreement
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Released in February 2022, the final report of IPCC Working Group II on Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.
IPCC, 2021: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis - Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Also known as the "Red Alert Report for Humanity"
COP26: 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties
21 Oct - 12 Nov. COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal
From the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The Portal curates more than 10,000 unique, global peer-reviewed research resources on climate change and human health, bringing together biomedical and earth science literature.
World Meteorological Association (WMO)

African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation by Walter Leal Filho (Editor-In-Chief); Nicholas Oguge (Editor); Desalegn Ayal (Editor); Lydia Adeleke (Editor); Izael da Silva (Editor)
ISBN: 9783030451066
Publication Date: 2021-06-21

Titles @ UVic Libraries

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Here is a small selection of titles available @ UVic Libraries to students, staff, and faculty. There are plenty more resources available via www.uvic.ca/library. eBook titles may open in the same window so for ease of use please open in a new tab.

Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, Second Edition by George Philander (Editor)
Call Number: eBook-SAGE
ISBN: 9781412992619
Publication Date: 2012-07-10
Climate Action by Walter Leal Filho (Editor); Anabela Marisa Azul (Editor); Luciana Brandli (Editor); Pinar Gökcin Özuyar (Editor); Tony Wall (Editor)
Call Number: eBook-Springer
ISBN: 9783319958859
Publication Date: 2019-10-24
Climate Change and Sustainable Development by Dalia Streimikienė; Asta Mikalauskiene
Call Number: eBook-T&F
ISBN: 9781003091646
Publication Date: 2021-05-06
The Politics of Climate Change Knowledge by Nowrin Tabassum
Call Number: eBook-T&F
ISBN: 9781003038283
Publication Date: 2022-03-03
Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice by Tahseen Jafry (Editor)
Call Number: eBook-T&F
ISBN: 9781315537689
Publication Date: 2018-11-01
Climate Change Science by John C. Mutter
Call Number: eBook-DeG
ISBN: 9780231192224
Publication Date: 2020-05-19

Climate Data

Climate Data Canada
Climate Change Knowledge Portal | World Bank
Query, map, compare, chart and summarize key climate and climate-related information.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Climate, socio-economic and environmental data, both from the past and also in scenarios projected into the future.
Climate Change - World Environment Situation Room (UNEP)
Data platform from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
FAO - Geographic Network (GeoNetwork)
Environment Data - OECD
Climate & Health Country Profiles (WHO)
Country-specific information about the current and future impacts of climate change on human health.
Data Explorer | Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
NASA: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
NASA: Earth Observatory Maps
WHO | SDG Target 13.1 | Natural disasters

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Resources & links (freely acessible)

Titles @ UVic Libraries

Climate Data

Global Organizations - Goal 13