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Goal 13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, as well as to build resilience in responding to climate-related hazards and natural disasters. This goal represents a collective responsibility to reinforce adaptive capacity and resilience to natural disasters and hazards related to climate change. Achieving this goal requires both the incorporation of measures to fight climate change into national planning, strategies, and policies and the improvement of awareness-raising, education, and institutional and human capacity on mitigation, impact reduction, early warning, and adaptation to climate change.
Lebanon has signed several conventions, such as the Paris Agreement, on climate change, and established several institutions dedicated to the protection of the environment. The country is vulnerable to extreme events such as winter floods and extended hot summer days that are increasing due to climate change. More can be done to reduce Lebanon’s contribution to climate change and increase the capacities of institutions working with environmental issues.
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