SDG13   Climate Action

Federica Doni

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SDG13 - Climate Action: Combatting Climate Change and its Impacts

Federica Doni
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Andrea Gasperini
Italian Association of Financial Analysts, Italy

João Torres Soares
University of Passo Fundo, Brazil

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Product Details

Format:: Paperback
ISBN:: 9781787569188
Published:: 28 Apr 2020
Publisher:: Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:: 112 pages - 129 x 198mm
Series:: Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

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Description

SDG 13 aims to ‘take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact’. This book demonstrates the potential for innovation in implementing SDG13 despite its associated challenges. The book features global success stories and uses empirical and science-based analysis to explore a wide range of practical implementation mechanisms, enabling conditions, and monitoring and reporting tools.

Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals comprises 17 short books, each examining one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The series provides an integrated assessment of the SDGs from economic, legal, social, environmental and cultural perspectives.

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: What are the Global Sustainable Development Goals?

Chapter 3: What is the SDG 13?

Chapter 4: Climate change trends: Understanding SDG 13 local agenda and key Interactions Frameworks

Chapter 5: Practical Tools and Mechanisms for SDG13 Implementation

Chapter 6: Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting on SDG 13 Implementation

Chapter 7: Conclusions

About the author

Federica Doni, PhD, is Associate Professor in Business Administration and Accounting at the Department of Business and Law, University of Milano-Bicocca. She teaches Financial Accounting and Business Analysis, Business Administration and Fiscal and Business Planning and Consultancy.

Andrea Gasperini, Chartered Accountant and Auditor in Milan, AIAF (Italian Association for Financial Analysis) Head of Sustainability, EFRAG member of European Lab Project Task Force on Climate-related Reporting and EFFAS member of commission on ESG issues.

João Torres Soares is an MSc student in Engineering by the Post-Graduate Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering (concentration area of infrastructure and environment) of the University of Passo Fundo.