SDG 13: Climate Action
“Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts”
Please click here for a full, international overview of SDG 13: Climate Action.
How is Boston tracking toward SDG 13: Climate Action?
I want to advocate for Climate Action, where do I start?
Use this template to write to your elected official in support of Climate Action
Start advocating by picking an indicator that needs your help…
Support these regional organizations
Join one of the oldest environmental nonprofits in the US: the Sierra Club, which helped pass the Clean Air Act. The Massachusetts Chapter of the Sierra Club offers various volunteer opportunities.
Amplify Massachusetts Climate Action Networks’s (MCAN) campaigns to raise awareness on initiatives such as community shared solar and carbon pricing.
Volunteer with Speak for the Trees Boston and help improve the size and health of the urban tree canopy in Boston, particularly in under-resourced and under-canopied neighborhoods.
Take an everyday action
Let your clothes and hair air dry instead of using extra energy.
Eat less meat, especially cows! Livestock alone accounts for 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions.
Start composting and properly reduce of your food scraps. Composting enriches soil and lessens the amount of methane gas released into the atmosphere.
Key piece of legislation
Support these national/international organizations
Check out the projects of Climate-XChange, a Boston-based nonprofit focused on carbon pricing, advocacy and education. They have a great “Campaigning 101” project to help you advance a carbon pricing campaign in your state.
Sign a petition with the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC)
Reduce greenhouse gases and save the polar bears with the World Wildlife Fund
Read Ember’s research and consider proposing one of their policies in your community. Ember is an innovative nonprofit and think tank based in the EU that is focused on the “global electricity transition.”
Support these regional organizations
Check out the City of Boston’s Coastal Resilience Project Tracker
Join the MA Commonwealth’s Global Warming Solutions Act Public Meetings and make your voice heard.
Low-income communities need better climate adaptation plans. Get involved with Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE) to make sure environmental justice is incorporated into climate adaptation plans.
Key pieces of legislation
Support these national/international organizations
Support the UN Environment Program in its continued work to help countries adapt to climate change.
Climate Resilience Fund works with philanthropic foundations to provide grants for organizations serving communities most vulnerable to climate change.
Support regional organizations
Attend Boston GreenFest, a festival held each summer that brings together environmental organizations, sustainable companies, and climate activists.
Amplify Massachusetts Climate Action Networks’s (MCAN) campaigns to raise awareness on initiatives such as community shared solar and carbon pricing.
Take an everyday action
Start a campaign about global warming at your school or office to raise awareness about the issue.
Support these national/international organizations
Get involved with the Environmental Defense Fund
Follow and share posts from the UN Environmental Program (IG, FB, TW, LI)