The Secretary-General was clear throughout his messaging that achieving the outcomes of the Rio+20 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 evidence-based policy.89 These three objectives guided the Secretary-General's engagement on climate change through the adoption of the Paris Agreement and beyond. In March 2014, 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.