the secretarygeneral was clear throughout his messaging that achieving the outcomes of the rio un conference on sustainable development would be impossible without ambitious and urgent action to mitigate climate change the action agenda aimed to facilitate adaptation and mitigation on the ground secure a comprehensive climate change agreement applicable to all parties with legal force under the unfccc and strengthen defend and use climate science to make and promote evidencebased policy these three objectives guided the secretarygenerals engagement on climate change through the adoption of the paris agreement and beyond in march he visited greenland to witness the impacts of climate change stressing while there that we cannot negotiate with nature we have to take action now