SDG 13: Climate Action
Updated: 30 September 2022
Manuela Leporesi
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- Action against climate change helps to improve air and water
- Climate action also helps to ensure sufficient food for all and housing that is good for health
- People’s health is protected by managing the impact of climate change, such as high temperatures and rising sea levels
- People can engage in climate action by eating less meat
- People can choose more sustainable ways to travel instead of by motorbike, car or plane
- People can recycle and reuse things, and save energy
- There are human rights related to climate action:
- Rights to life and to health
- Rights to adequate food and to safe drinking water
- Right of all peoples to freely dispose of their natural resources
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