THE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AS AN INTEGRAL RESPONSE TO FACE THE CLIMATE CHANGE

Abstract

Climate change is the most complex and gravest environmental challenge faced by humanity currently, becoming one of the high priority tasks of the government members of the United Nations Framework Commission on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These actions require collective actions to stabilize greenhouse gas (GHG) levels, as well as regulatory policies to limit the emissions and encourage the promotion of innovated actions for the mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Accurately the technological innovation is a strategic helper and extremely necessary to face this infliction that risk human life. Due to the complexity of these processes, it is necessary to take into account the development policies of the countries and the available resources to encourage to the technological innovation that materializes their acceptance based on the realities and conditions of each territory.

Keywords: technological innovation, climate change, adaptation to climate change, development policies.