©First published November 2015 – Updated March 2023 From COP1 to COP28 The Brief History of the COP, Conference of the Parties, is a short summary or timeline of what has happened at the major annual climate conferences. The Brief History of the COP and the Brief History of the COP are original creations of [...]
Contents Introduction to COP27 / The COP27 agenda / Where and when it took place / Who is who at COP27 / The great absentees / Those who did appear / The vision of the COP27 presidency / Mitigation and adaptation / Minimum advances in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions / Extension for the [...]
The good news is that the road for the renewable, green, or clean fuels is clear. Already 13% of the world's energy is produced by solar and wind energy, and the production of both continues to increase, according to data provided by CNN. The transition process is in full movement and has reached an inertia [...]
Updated June 20, 2022 The war in Ukraine is showing setbacks in some fossil energy cancellation programs, as in the case of Germany, which yesterday announced the resumption of the use of coal as fuel, despite having celebrated two years ago the closure of its last underground coal mine. Similarly, the war is an important [...]
Updated June 2022 From today's headline (22-6-2022), World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2022. “Drought in Chile: the effects of climate change and the overexploitation of reserves. Since 2007, Chile has suffered an extreme drought. In many regions, the flow of streams and rivers has been reduced by between 50 and more than 90 [...]
At the 1972 Stockholm Conference was everything we should have done, but didn't do Going back to Stockholm, in the real sense of the phrase, is impossible. Only in science fiction can you go back to the past. Reversing deforestation of forests is unreal. It can be reforested, yes, but the deforested areas are so [...]
Tomorrow (05-30-2022) begins the week of the 50th anniversary of "Stockholm 1972", the first world environmental conference, also called "First Earth Summit" or "UN Conference on the Human Environment". Half a century ago, in the capital of Sweden, a fundamental document was produced, drawn up by illustrious minds. “The Stockholm Declaration”, which consists of 7 [...]
“Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain”. I have borrowed the first lines of the poem “Romance Sonámbulo” by the famous Spanish poet Federico García Lorca to write this article, in tribute to our planet on the occasion of International [...]
Four years ago, when we published our set of “Frequently Asked Questions about the Paris Agreement”, in the one marked as number seven we asked: What are the dangers that can affect the Paris Agreement? In response, we placed 11 causes that could implode the climate agreement. One of them says: a generalized war that [...]
On March 21 and 22, the “International Day of Forests” and the “World Water Day” are celebrated. Let the opportunity be propitious to remember that deforestation of forests, drought and water scarcity are closely related to each other, with serious environmental and social consequences. In almost the entire planet, water scarcity has become an increasingly [...]
