SDG13 Stop Climate Change: Now or Never, Needed Post Pandemic Corrections and Achieving SDG and going to Moon, Mars and Beyond

SDG13 Stop Climate Change: Now or Never, Needed Post Pandemic Corrections and Achieving SDG and going to Moon, Mars and Beyond

SDG 13: Problems created or aggravated by Pandemic: YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/FbSzJRVg8X0 • Climate Crisis unabated (Ditto words of UN on SDG13 • In 2017 reached 1 Degrees Celsius above the Pre-Industrial level temperature, if want to reduce temperature by 1.5 degrees Celsius then we are falling behind 2015 Paris Agreement. • Shifting Economies to Carbon Neutrality is on hold due to Pandemic and it needs Post Pandemic Correction to achieve above mentioned 1.5 degrees Celsius reduction by 2050. • Climate Finance increased in 2015-16 and 2017-18 by 10% and reached USD 48.7 Billion but again Pandemic has negative impact on it. • Out of 154 developing countries 125 have National Climate Adaptation Plan with highest priority given to: • Food Security and Production, but Pandemic have destroyed the complete value chain right from production reaching to consumers • Human Health, has big impact as only COVID 2019 patients were on focus and most of the other diseases were almost neglected, • Key Economic Sectors and Services, Due to lockdown it had the biggest impact, • Terrestrial and Wetland Ecosystem, and • Freshwater Resources, also got impacted. SDG13: Targets and Indicators: • Target 13.1: • Strengthening Resilience • Strengthening Adaptive Capacity of All the Countries for: • Climate Related Hazards • Natural Disasters • Indicator 13.1.1: • Number of deaths in disaster/ 100,000 population, • Number of missing persons / 100,000 population, • Number of people directly affected / 100,000 population. • Indicator 13.1.2: Number of countries adopting SENDAI Framework 2015-2030 for Disaster Risk Reduction • Indicator 13.1.3: Proportion of local governments adapting National Risk Reduction strategies in line with SENDAI Framework 2015-2030 for Disaster Risk Reduction • Target 13.2: “Integrating climate changing measures into the national policies, strategies, and planning” Ditto as we saw in earlier Targets… • Indicator 13.2.1: Number of countries adapting to the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change with all details. • Indicator 13.2.2: Total Greenhouse Gas Emission of that nation / Year • Target 13.3: Improving Education, Awareness, and Human and Institutional and National Capacity on: • Climate Change • Climate Mitigation • Climate Adaptation • Disaster Early Warning • Disaster Impact Reduction • Indicator 13.3.1: Extend of the Education Reaching Grassroot level: • Global Citizenship Education and SDG: • Curricula, • Teachers Education and • Student Assessment (As we saw in earlier Target in details) • Indicator 13.3.2: Number of countries Adopted Target 13.3/ Out of 193 (present UNO members) • Target 13.a: Mobilising Green Climate Fund worth USD 100 Billion Every Year by 2020, as per the UN Convention on Climate Change to transparently see the action and results in developing countries. (It needs course correction due to pandemic and lockdowns) • Indicator 13.a.1: Amount provided in USD for collective mobilisation goal/ Planned USD 100 Billion per year commitment through 2025. • Target 13.b: Promote Mechanism for UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in: • Least Developed Countries • Small Island States • Including focus on Women, Youth, Local and Marginalised Communities • Indicator 13.b.1: As per the Intergovernmental, International and Global UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as reported to UN Secretariat with: • 1. Nationally Determined Contributions, • 2. Long Term Strategies, • 3. National Adaptations Plans, and • 4. Adaptation Communications • Ratio 1: Number of Least Developed Countries (Out of 46 LCD) are implementing above 4 pointers, • Ratio 2: Number of Small Island Developing States (Out of 52 SIDS) are implementing above 4 pointers. • Please note: These 2 are the main representative pointers and there are several other sub pointers, sub proportions, sub ratios, etc. are there as well. • These, I have given just to understand what exactly is happening with respect to SDG, and how they calculate and what are the actions we need to take. If we Achieve SDG first on Mother Earth and/or simultaneously go to Moon, Mars and Beyond, then humans will be called their own Best Friends, otherwise, all Humans, the so-called foes of each other’s, will be shaking hands with Dinosaurs fossils forever. Please save humanity. Dr. Ashish Manohar, Soulution Master, India