About this Research Topic
Building on the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the cornerstone of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, billed by the UN as “An Agenda of unprecedented scope and significance.” The seventeen ambitious goals, which are intended to be reached by 2030, are conceived as integrated, indivisible, and as balancing the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. As a member of the SDGs Publishers Compact, Frontiers is committed to accelerating progress to achieve the goals.
The seventeen SDGs are organized around five core pillars:
• People: ending poverty and hunger and ensuring that all human beings can lead fulfilling lives in a healthy and dignified environment.
• Planet: protecting the environment while ensuring sustainable use and management of natural resources.
• Prosperity: ensuring environmentally sustainable economic growth, mutual prosperity, and decent work for all.
• Peace: building societies that are peaceful, just, and inclusive, and in which human rights and gender equality are respected.
• Partnership: strengthening global solidarity to address inequalities within and between countries, by focusing on the needs of the most vulnerable.
This Research Topic will address Sustainable Development Goal 13, Climate Action. The aim of this goal is to ‘take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Cities are responsible for around 60% of greenhouse gas emissions, and with an ever-growing level of urbanization, this proportion is only expected to rise. It is therefore essential that efforts to mitigate climate change are centered on urban environments. Furthermore, with the United Nations predicting that 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050, adapting cities to withstand the impacts of climate change is vital for the health and survival of urban populations.
This Research Topic will address SDG13 from a Sustainable Cities perspective, focusing on the progress towards the goal in urban environments. We welcome multidisciplinary and diverse studies that explore themes including, but not limited to:
• Climate change and extreme weather events in cities
• Net Zero Emissions: a solution to climate change
• Climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem services
• Climate change and urban health issues
• Climate change, adaptation, and resilience in cities
• Climate finance flows in cities
• Implementation and impact of climate action plans in cities
• Climate justice and equity in cities
• Participation of stakeholders, citizens, private sector, in climate action in cities
The seventeen SDGs are organized around five core pillars:
• People: ending poverty and hunger and ensuring that all human beings can lead fulfilling lives in a healthy and dignified environment.
• Planet: protecting the environment while ensuring sustainable use and management of natural resources.
• Prosperity: ensuring environmentally sustainable economic growth, mutual prosperity, and decent work for all.
• Peace: building societies that are peaceful, just, and inclusive, and in which human rights and gender equality are respected.
• Partnership: strengthening global solidarity to address inequalities within and between countries, by focusing on the needs of the most vulnerable.
This Research Topic will address Sustainable Development Goal 13, Climate Action. The aim of this goal is to ‘take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Cities are responsible for around 60% of greenhouse gas emissions, and with an ever-growing level of urbanization, this proportion is only expected to rise. It is therefore essential that efforts to mitigate climate change are centered on urban environments. Furthermore, with the United Nations predicting that 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050, adapting cities to withstand the impacts of climate change is vital for the health and survival of urban populations.
This Research Topic will address SDG13 from a Sustainable Cities perspective, focusing on the progress towards the goal in urban environments. We welcome multidisciplinary and diverse studies that explore themes including, but not limited to:
• Climate change and extreme weather events in cities
• Net Zero Emissions: a solution to climate change
• Climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem services
• Climate change and urban health issues
• Climate change, adaptation, and resilience in cities
• Climate finance flows in cities
• Implementation and impact of climate action plans in cities
• Climate justice and equity in cities
• Participation of stakeholders, citizens, private sector, in climate action in cities
Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable Cities, Climate Change, Resilience, Adaptation, Mitigation, Net Zero, Health
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