| Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | ||
| Goal 13.1 | Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries | |
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| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DCCAE | National Adaptation Framework | This Framework aims to strengthen adaptative capacity and to support the transition towards a climate resilient Ireland by 2050 and also includes support adaptation action at sectoral and local level. |
| Goal 13.2 | Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DPER | Building on Recovery: Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2016-2021 | |
| DCCAE | National Mitigation Plan | Ireland’s first National Mitigation Plan sets out this Government’s shared approach to reducing our own greenhouse gas emissions. This is a whole-of-Government Plan, reflecting in particular the central roles of the key Ministers responsible for the sectors covered by the Plan – Electricity Generation, the Built Environment, Transport and Agriculture, as well as drawing on the perspectives and responsibilities of a range of other Government Departments. The measures that are and will be implemented through this National Mitigation Plan will lay the foundations for transitioning Ireland to a low carbon, climate resilient and environmentally sustainable economy by 2050. This National Mitigation Plan sets out our vision to achieve this transition in which each and every one of us has a role to play as we work to build this future. |
| National Biodiversity Action Plan 2017-2021 | ||
| National Adaptation Framework | This Framework specifies the strategy for adaptation measures in different sectors and by local authorities to reduce the vulnerability of the State to the negative effects of climate change and to avail of any positive effects that may occur. This Framework and its successors will set out the context to ensure local authorities, regions and key sectors can assess the key risks and vulnerabilities of climate change, implement climate resilience actions and ensure climate adaptation considerations are mainstreamed into all local, regional and national policy-making. | |
| National Policy Position on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development | This provides a high-level policy direction for the adoption and implementation by Government of plans to enable the State to move to a low carbon economy by 2050. | |
| Goal 13.3 | Improve education, awarness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaption, impact reduction and early warning | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
DCCAE |
National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development in Ireland 2014-2020 | |
| National Mitigation Plan | This is a whole-of-Government Plan, reflecting in particular the central roles of the key Ministers responsible for the sectors covered by the Plan – Electricity Generation, the Built Environment, Transport and Agriculture, as well as drawing on the perspectives and responsibilities of a range of other Government Departments. The measures that are and will be implemented will lay the foundations for transitioning Ireland to a low carbon, climate resilient and environmentally sustainable economy by 2050. | |
| National Adaptation Framework | This Framework specifies the strategy for adaptation measures in different sectors and by local authorities to reduce the vulnerability of the State to the negative effects of climate change and to avail of any positive effects that may occur. This Framework and its successors will set out the context to ensure local authorities, regions and key sectors can assess the key risks and vulnerabilities of climate change, implement climate resilience actions and ensure climate adaptation considerations are mainstreamed into all local, regional and national policy making. | |
| National Policy Position on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development | The extent of the challenge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in line with our EU and international commitments, is well understood by Government, as reflected in the National Policy Position on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development, published in April 2014, and in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015. The National Policy Position provides a high-level policy direction for the adoption and implementation by Government of plans to enable the State to move to a low carbon economy by 2050. Statutory authority for the plans is set out in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. The evolution of climate policy in Ireland will be an iterative process based on the adoption by Government of a series of national plans over the period to 2050. Greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation to the impacts of climate change are to be addressed in parallel national plans – respectively through National Mitigation Plans and National Climate Change Adaptation Frameworks. | |
| Goal 13.a | Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DCCAE | Govt. Decision S180/20/10/1660. | Ireland has also committed to a number of policy measures in relation to international climate finance, through commitments to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), through Government Decision S180/20/10/1660 of 13 January 2016, and under the Programme for a Partnership Government. |
| DFAT | One World, One Future | The international community has committed to provide $100 billion per annum by 2020 for climate action in developing countries within the ongoing climate change negotiations. Ireland will maintain its engagement with the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol global processes, and strive to meet the obligations arising from these. |
| DFIN | Ongoing Engagement with Multilateral Development Bank. | Ireland commenced contributions to the Green Climate Fund in 2016. |
| Goal 13.b | Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DFAT | One World, One Future | |
| The Global Island | ||
| Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts3 | |
| 13.1 By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums | 13.1.1 Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population |
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| 13.1.2 Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 | |
| 13.1.3 Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies | |
| 13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning | 13.2.1 Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| 13.2.2 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 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 |
| 13.a Implement the commitment undertaken by developedcountry parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible | 13.a.1 Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025 |
| 13.b Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities | 13.b.1 Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
