And if we analyze the studies on climate change that various researchers and organizations have published in recent years, we will realize that it will be increasingly difficult to achieve the goals of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, and even 2 °C, which have been discussed and agreed internationally, if action is not taken in a rapid, coordinated and extensive manner.
Consequently, it is necessary to implement measures that not only seek to compensate, but also significantly limit and reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that are being emitted into the atmosphere; adopt commitments based on science-based goals and targets; and deploy concrete and forceful strategies and actions in the short, medium and long terms.
As a frame of reference, we can take the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which serve as a guide to leave no one behind, focusing on the development of people, the planet and prosperity and contributing to the generation of a culture of peace through alliances; and that in the face of climate change it contemplates moving towards an accelerated decarbonization of the economy; promote the creation of green jobs and sustainable and inclusive growth; invest in technology and sustainable solutions; comprehensively address climate risks; and achieve cooperation between sectors and at different levels, among other lines of action.
For each of these elements, governments can design public policies, laws and regulations, as well as incentives to achieve a favorable environment so that the private sector carries out sustainability actions and strategies that permeate and transforming their business models, in a complementary way to all the projects and programs that have been triggered by civil society organizations.
However, we cannot merely focus on the environmental side and lose sight of the human side, since climate change is not a phenomenon far removed from our daily lives, but rather, on the contrary, it is also having an impact on health and well-being of people, in their quality of life, in their development, in their heritage, in the emergence of migrants and climate refugees, etc.