13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
The climate crisis continues, largely unabated.
The 2020 global average temperature at 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial baseline is willfully off-track to stay at or below 1.5% Celsius as called for in the Paris Agreement.
Rising greenhouse gas emissions require shifting economies towards carbon neutrality.
Climate finance is increased by 10% from 2015 to 2016 to 2017 to 2018, reaching an annual average of $48.7 billion.
125 of 154 developing countries are formulating and implementing national climate adaptation plans.
Highest priority areas include food security and production, terrestrial and wetland ecosystems, freshwater resources, human health, and key economic sectors and services.