142 b. Declare a Climate and Environmental Alert The government must recognize the need for urgent measures to address the impacts of climate change. There must be an acknowledgement that anthropogenic climate change, if left unmitigated, can and will lead to global extinction; that existing measures to combat its consequences must be improved; and that long-term measures for adaptation, mitigation, and resiliency must be translated to concrete actions. The declaration must specify in no uncertain terms the need to address climate action as a national priority and require the (a) mainstreaming of climate science and climate response into national and local policies and legislation; (b) alignment of sectoral development priorities and socioeconomic development plans with climate targets; (c) mobilization and proper allocation of international and domestic financial resources; (d) involvement of the private sector in climate actions; and (e) the immediate and just transition to a low-carbon economy. c. Revisit the NDC The NDC mentions GHG mitigation targets for the agriculture, wastes, industry, transport, and energy sectors but fails to mention the forestry sector–seemingly disregarding the importance of forest covers as effective carbon sinks, and the contribution of deforestation and change in land cover to the net release of CO2 and rise in global temperatures.610 The Commission recommends the revision of the NDC to include the forestry sector in GHG mitigation–not just adaptation targets. The Commission also recommends including sectoral baseline data to serve as a basis for the evaluation of the effectiveness of climate policies and projects for each sector. 610 IPCC, 2019: Climate Change and Land: An IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems [P.R. Shukla, J. Skea, E. Calvo Buendia, V. Masson-Delmotte, H.-O. Pörtner, D. C. Roberts, P. Zhai, R. Slade, S. Connors, R. van Diemen, M. Ferrat, E. Haughey, S. Luz, S. Neogi, M. Pathak, J. Petzold, J. Portugal Pereira, P. Vyas, E. Huntley, K. Kissick, M. Belkacemi, J. Malley, (eds.)]. In press.