From Global to Regional

There seems to be an argumentative trap in the current international plans to achieve the Paris Agreement and the co-dependent targets of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. The reason is simple: the timeframes of these two policy initiatives overly limit attention to future generations; according to available estimates, many of the problems that are foreseen will not occur until after the timeframes of these policy plans. For this reason, the proposal we present here is to highlight some of the inconsistencies that make up this type of discourse. To do so, we provide concrete data on the impacts on the planet, people and their prosperity. Based on the conviction that comes from paying attention not only to the arguments but also to the data currently available, a triple reflection can be established: first, what is the consideration regarding the idea of well-being that is sought, even in spite of the new climatic circumstances; and second, what kind of political behaviour is likely to guarantee it, if this is possible, or, if not. A third reflection should seek to answer the question of what other discursive margins these socio-environmental and climatic difficulties place us in front of. These three questions will be the ones we will try to answer in a consistent manner, based on the critical analysis of the discourses referring to the subject we are dealing with, relying on the results that the dynamics of systems can provide us with through the use of different models of integrated evaluation which, based on the different relationships between the economic, energy, material and social dimensions, will help us to understand the potential of the different political decisions referring to the purposes of climate action and their consequences on the well-being of people at different levels: global and regional, as in the case of Latin America and the Caribbean, on which we will focus a large part of our conclusions in this regard.