Challenges and Potential Sustainable Solutions of Environmental Threats and Climate Change in Guatemala

Abstract

The Need to Cope with Environmental and Climate Change Threats. The recent approval of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), at the end of the year 2015 in the General Assembly of the United Nations, culminates a process of understanding the goals sought throughout the world, regarding economic growth, quality of life and the environment, including climate change. These three axes, in a joint and balanced way as well as the approach towards future generations, are the dimensions that precisely define the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development in the Brundtland Report (1987). These SDGs replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) changing the horizon for achievements from the year 2015–2030. However, over time, since the United Nations called these global efforts the “First Decade of Development” in 1960, its approaches and integration of its various components has not been an easy task.