Avanços do Objetivo de Desenvolvimento Sustentável 13 no combate às mudanças climáticas e sua importância no contexto atual

Abstract

The Sustainable Development Goas (SDGs) make up the 2030 Agenda e are a set of 17 Goals and 169 targets, which were created in 2015 by the United Nations, with the purpose of improving, through their achievement by the year 2030, aspects in the social, economic and environmental spheres, the latter being the focus of this work. One of the major problems today is climate change and how it directly impacts society, jeopardizing current environmental and of future generations. In this context, this work aims to analyze the importance of SDG 13 (Climate Action), how it has progressed in recent years in relation to combating the effects of climate change and what can still be done to ensure its reach by the year of 2030. Several studies were carried out on the subject and analyzes of how Brazil and the world have been acting in the fulfillment of SDG 13, in addition of a form to collect different information on the subject in the academic environment. Finally, it can be concluded that, despite the great setbacks in recent years in relation to the environmental theme, the SDGs, specially 13, are extremely important for the current scenario, and that it is possible, through the joint action of several organizations, to generate effective changes for the reach of this objective and its respective goals until 2030.