Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow. Weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising, weather events are becoming more extreme and greenhouse gas emissions are now at their highest levels in history. Without action, the world’s average surface temperature is likely to surpass 3 degrees centigrade this century. The poorest and most vulnerable people are being affected the most.
Affordable, scalable solutions are now available to enable countries to leapfrog to cleaner, more resilient economies. The pace of change is quickening as more people are turning to renewable energy and a range of other measures that will reduce emissions and increase adaptation efforts. Climate change, however, is a global challenge that does not respect national borders. It is an issue that requires solutions that need to be coordinated at the international level to help developing countries move toward a low-carbon economy.
To strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, countries adopted the Paris Agreement at the COP21 in Paris, which went into force in November of 2016. In the agreement, all countries agreed to work to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees centigrade. As of April 2018, 175 parties had ratified the Paris Agreement and 10 developing countries had submitted their first iteration of their national adaptation plans for responding to climate change.
Name | Acronym | Founded | City HQ | Country/Territory HQ | Type I | Type II |
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World Merit |
Liverpool | UK | J | |||
World Meteorological Organization |
WMO | 1947 | Geneva | Switzerland | B | g |
World Neighbors |
WN | 1951 | Oklahoma City OK | USA | G | v |
World Organization of the Scout Movement |
WOSM | 1907 | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | B | |
World Organization of United Cities and Local Governments |
UCLG | 2004 | Barcelona | Spain | B | |
World Packaging Organisation |
WPO | 1968 | Vienna | Austria | C | y |
World Resources Forum Association |
WRFA | 2012 | St Gallen | Switzerland | E | y |
World Sailing |
1907 | London | UK | B | y | |
World Silambam Association |
WSA | 1999 | Petaling Jaya | Malaysia | G | |
world stainless association |
worldstainless | 1995 | Brussels | Belgium | F | y |
World Steel Association |
worldsteel | 1967 | Brussels | Belgium | C | |
World Tourism Forum Lucerne |
Lucerne | Switzerland | G | |||
World Travel Agents Associations Alliance |
WTAAA | 2008 | Benmore | South Africa | C | |
World Travel and Tourism Council |
WTTC | 1990 | London | UK | F | v |
World Urban Parks |
2015 | Edmonton AB | Canada | C | ||
World Weather Watch |
WWW | 1968 | Geneva | Switzerland | F | g |
World Wide Fund for Nature |
WWF | 1961 | Gland | Switzerland | F | f |
World Wind Energy Association |
WWEA | 2001 | Bonn | Germany | C | y |
World Wind Energy Institute |
WWEI | 2006 | Hurup Thy | Denmark | E | j |
World Wood Day Foundation |
WWDF | 2013 | F | f | ||
World Youth Student and Educational Travel Confederation |
WYSE Travel Confederation | 2006 | Amsterdam | Netherlands | C | y |
World’s Youth for Climate Justice |
WYCJ | The Hague | Netherlands | F | ||
WorldFish |
1975 | Bayan Lepas | Malaysia | E | ||
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy |
1991 | Wuppertal | Germany | G | j | |
YES-Europe |
2016 | Geneva | Switzerland | F | ||
YOU Stiftung - Bildung für Kinder in Not |
YOU Foundation | 1992 | Düsseldorf | Germany | G | f |
Young European Leadership |
YEL | Brussels | Belgium | F | ||
Youth and Environment Europe |
YEE | 1983 | Prague | Czechia | E | |
Youth Climate |
YOUNGO | 2005 | E | |||
Youth For Public Transport |
Y4PT | 2009 | Sint-Jans-Molenbeek | Belgium | F | |
Zentrum für Internationale Friedenseinsätze |
ZIF | 2002 | Berlin | Germany | G | |
Zero Emissions Platform |
ZEP | 2005 | Brussels | Belgium | F |