Goal 13. Climate action

13. Climate action - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.a, 13.b

13.1  Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related disasters

Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.

• STINT Project. Towards climate resilient agriculture: Start-up research and educational activities between the Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Department of Economics and Agricultural Resources, Kasetsart University (KU) in Thailand (Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Department of Economics)
• Climate adaptation for upland minority farmers in Southeast Asia (Malin Beckman)
• Implementing sustainable agricultural and livestock systems for simultaneous targeting of forest conservation for climate change mitigation (REDD+) and peace-building in Colombia (Marcos Lana)
• Urban Green Infrastructure for Optimizing Long-Term Provision of Ecosystem Services: Developing a Universal Framework Under Different Cultures and Climates (Åsa Ode Sang)
• Developing finger millet lines (in Ethiopia) tolerant to acidic soils by integrating phenotypic screening and genomic analysis (Mulatu Geleta Dida) 
• Screening and association mapping of drought tolerant sorghum genotypes in Ethiopia (Anders Carlsson)
• Genetic diversity, grain protein composition and physicochemical starch traits in Ethiopian durum wheat gene pool (Rodomiro Ortiz)
• Improving oil qualities and quantities in Brassica carinata (in Ethiopia) for either food or industrial applications (Li-Hua Zhu)
• Development and use of high throughput, dense DNA markers for genetic diversity analysis to promote conservation and breeding of Guizotia abyssinica (Noug) in Ethiopia (Mulatu Geleta Dida) 
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation benefits of wilder rangelands (Joris Cromsigt)
• Impact of extreme weather on Sweden's ungulates (Joris Cromsigt)
• Complexity of Sustainable Development for Tourism, Local People and Wildlife, in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe (Michael Jones)
• A standard for Nature-based Solutions to global societal challenges (Swedish Biodiversity Centre, CBM) (Michael Jones)

13.2 Integrate climate change measures into policies and planning

Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning.

• Biodiversity conservation and sustainable forestry (Michael Jones, Åsa Fahlman,Johnny de Jong)
• STINT Project. Towards climate resilient agriculture: Start-up research and educational activities between the Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Department of Economics and Agricultural Resources, Kasetsart University (KU) in Thailand (Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Department of Economics)
• Climate adaptation for upland minority farmers in Southeast Asia (Malin Beckman)
• Growth, climate and equity on competing interests in forest plantations policies for sustainable development (Mats Sandewall)
• From research to practice - Towards more sustainable consumption of carbon emissions: A tool for assessing social dimensions of carbon forestry in low-income countries (Linda Engström with Flora Hajdu)

13.3 Build knowledge and capacity to meet climate change

Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.

• STINT Project. Towards climate resilient agriculture: Start-up research and educational activities between the Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Department of Economics and Agricultural Resources, Kasetsart University (KU) in Thailand (Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Department of Economics)
• Support to researchers and environmental analysts regarding open access to research data (Ylva Toljander, SND)
• Durum Wheat in Senegal river basin. Heat tolerance. Not just varieties, whole value chain (Rodomiro Ortiz)
• Acceleratd Breeding of Better Bananas (Rodomiro Ortiz)
• Erasmus capacity building program in wildlife ecology and management South Africa - Sweden(Joris Cromsigt)
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation benefits of wilder rangelands (Joris Cromsigt)
• Impact of extreme weather on Sweden's ungulates (Joris Cromsigt)
• SLU - Nelson Mandela University partnership (Joris Cromsigt)
• From research to practice - Towards more sustainable consumption of carbon emissions: A tool for assessing social dimensions of carbon forestry in low-income countries (Linda Engström with Flora Hajdu)

13.a Implement the UN framework convention on climate change

• Defaunation, illegal wildlife trade and Natural Climate Solutions in South Africa (Joris Cromsigt)
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation benefits of wilder rangelands (Joris Cromsigt)

13.b  Promote mechanisms to raise capacity for planning and management

• Deriving soil information as decision support for site-specific agricultural management at multiple scales in East Africa (Kristin Piikki)
• From research to practice - Towards more sustainable consumption of carbon emissions: A tool for assessing social dimensions of carbon forestry in low-income countries (Linda Engström with Flora Hajdu)