SDG 13
Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change.
Ireland: Major challenges remain· Stagnating
Official figures from the Sustainable Development Report 2026 (Sachs, Lafortune, Fuller, Iablonovski — SDSN), shown as published — only the layout is ours. The report is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDSN. Imported from their published database on 2026-09-21.
What this goal covers
- •Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and disasters
- •Integrate climate action into national policies and planning
- •Improve climate education, awareness and early-warning capacity
Simplified from the UN's official targets for this goal.
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Goal 13 score, by country
Ireland is in rank group 96 of 163 (out of 163 countries with a score for this goal).
What makes up Ireland's score (67 out of 100)
The average of 5 indicator scores, one per official target area. Each bar scores Ireland from 0 to 100 on that indicator: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0.
- 13.1 Local preparedness · Local governments with disaster-risk-reduction strategies100% (2017)100
- 13.1 Disaster resilience · Deaths and missing persons from disasters0.1 per 100,000 (2017)100
- 13.2 Emissions · Greenhouse gas emissions per person11.1 t CO2e (2024)52
- 13.3 Climate education · Climate change taught in schools (score)23.6% (2023)49
- 13.1 Disaster preparedness · National disaster-risk-reduction strategy score0.4 (2017)37
Not covered: Climate finance (13.a), national adaptation plans (13.b) and Paris Agreement reporting (13.2.1) have no country-level data.
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Limitation: Only one indicator here measures climate outcomes (emissions per person); the others are strategy and education scores that follow a country's wealth and government capacity more than its climate performance. Read it as a rough guide.
Chart data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0) and the UN SDG Global Database (UNdata terms). Each goal score (0–100, 100 = best) averages a country's scores on several official indicators, one per main target area of the goal (5 for this goal). Each indicator is scored against a range set by the data: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0. Latest value per country since 2010; fetched 2026-09-22. The scores are calculated by this site; the underlying values are the sources', unchanged. Not covered: Climate finance (13.a), national adaptation plans (13.b) and Paris Agreement reporting (13.2.1) have no country-level data. Limitation: Only one indicator here measures climate outcomes (emissions per person); the others are strategy and education scores that follow a country's wealth and government capacity more than its climate performance. Read it as a rough guide. How the scores are built → Caution: Deaths and missing persons from disasters — Dominated by single disasters in some years.
- Greenhouse gas emissions per person (WB EN.GHG.ALL.PC.CE.AR5; 13.2 Emissions)
- Deaths and missing persons from disasters (UN VC_DSR_MTMP; 13.1 Disaster resilience)
- National disaster-risk-reduction strategy score (UN SG_DSR_LGRGSR; 13.1 Disaster preparedness)
- Local governments with disaster-risk-reduction strategies (UN SG_DSR_SILS; 13.1 Local preparedness)
- Climate change taught in schools (score) (UN SE_SGE_CLIMCH; 13.3 Climate education)
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