Sustainable Development Goals - 17 Goals to Transform our World
Climate action - Goal 13

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

As part of the City of Los Angeles' commitment to adopt and implement the SDGs, the City has, where applicable, localized the national targets to align to city government plans and policies. More information on the localization process is available at this link.

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Targets

Indicators

13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all community plan areas
13.1.1 Reported online Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
13.1.2 Reported online Whether or not the city has adopted and implemented a disaster risk reduction strategy in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
  • Revised
  • Non-Statistical
13.1.3 Reported online Whether or not the city has adopted and implemented local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
  • Revised
  • Non-Statistical
13.2 Integrate climate change measures into all City policies, strategies and planning
13.2.1 Reported online Whether or not the city has locally determined contributions, long-term strategies, local adaptation plans, strategies as reported in adaptation communications and local communications
  • Revised
  • Non-Statistical
13.2.2 Reported online Total greenhouse gas emissions per year
13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.3.1 Reported online Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment
  • Non-Statistical
13.b Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
13.b.1 Not applicable Number of least developed countries and small island developing States that are receiving specialized support, and amount of support, including finance, technology and capacity-building, for mechanisms for raising capacities for effective climate change-related planning and management, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities