Climate security

Climate Change No Longer a Distant or Abstract Threat (It's Here)

The 2030 Agenda document -- containing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets -- recognizes that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Its adverse impacts undermine the ability of all countries to achieve sustainable development.

As confirmed by the world's leading scientists, it is no longer a distant or abstract threat. The world's poorest and most vulnerable people are already being impacted by water scarcity, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, loss of agricultural lands and ecosystems, forest fires, floods and intensified extreme events such as hurricanes and typhoons. The annual losses from natural disasters now average U.S. $250 billion to U.S. $300billion.