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Climate change is a real threat to humanity. Many effects are already noticeable and will be catastrophic unless everybody makes a change. "Through education, innovation and adherence to our climate commitments, we can make the necessary changes to protect the planet. These changes also provide huge opportunities to modernize our infrastructure which will create new jobs and promote greater prosperity across the globe." (Goal 13: Climate Action, n.d.).

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The global average sea level has risen by 19cm in the last 100 years due to warming temperatures and melting ice (Goal 13: Climate Action, n.d.).

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United Nations has set 5 targets to create action and combat climate change:
1) Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related disasters,
2) Integrate climate change measures into policies and planning,
3) build knowledge and capacity to meet climate change,
4) Implement the UN framework convention on climate change, and
5) Promote mechanisms to raise capacity for planning and management
(Goal 13: Climate Action, n.d.)

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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was created in 1994. 194 have ratified the convention whose ultimate goal is "preventing 'dangerous' human interference with the climate system and to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations." (What is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change?, n.d.).

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The worst impacts of climate change could become irreversible by 2030 (5 climate change facts to scare you into action this Halloween, 2019).

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The paris convention was created in 2015, it was an agreement between all countries in which they promised to take action and address climate change (Climate Action: Why It Matters, n.d.).

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A $6 billion USD investment in disaster risk reduction over the next 15 years would avoid losses of $360 billion USD (Climate Action: Why It Matters, n.d.).

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The Arctic sea extent has shrunk in every decade since 1979, with 1.07 million km² of ice loss every decade (Goal 13: Climate Action, n.d.).

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born in 2014, an effort that had businesses and investors promising to lower their greenhouse gas emissions (Climate Action: Why It Matters, n.d.).

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more than 1 million species are at risk of extinction due to climate change (5 climate change facts to scare you into action this Halloween, 2019).

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from 1880-2012, the average global temperature increased by 0.85oC (Goal 13: Climate Action, n.d.).

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These are some changes that can be made easily by each person to slow the rate of climate change:
1) save electricity by using a power strip and turn the strip off when not in use,
2) eat less meat, poultry and fish. eating plants take much less resources to provide than meat,
3) shop locally. Supporting businesses in your neighbourhood prevents cars and trucks from driving far distances and keeps people employed, and
4) make sure your home and work uses energy efficient heating and cooling technology and turn the thermostat lower in the winter and higher in the summer.
(The Lazy Person's Guide to Saving the World, n.d.).

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the world needs to transform its energy industry, transport, food, agriculture and forestry systems to stop the global temperature from rising more (Climate Action: Why It Matters, n.d.).

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The number of natural disasters worldwide today is 400% higher then is was in 1970 (Goal 13: Climate Action, n.d.).

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