As we write this, two months have passed since the close of COP30, held in Belém, Brazil, between November 10 and 21, 2025, a meeting that had generated much hope, but whose final outcome fell far short of expectations. When a COP ends, usually set on a Friday, all environmentalists rush to draft their summaries [...]
General Information Event Dates: November 10-21, 2025 Name: COP30 or 30th Conference of the Parties, Belém 2025, Amazonia Brazil Main Topics: Climate finance, emissions mitigation, climate change adaptation, fossil fuel reduction, forest protection, and biodiversity support Leaders absent from COP30: Donald Trump (USA), Xi Jinping (China), Vladimir Putin (Russia), and Narendra Modi (India), leaders of [...]
Information about COP28 The venue: Dubai. Between November 30 and December 12, 2023 President designated: Sultan Al Jaber The motto: “Unite, act, deliver.” Main objective: Keep the increase in global temperature to 1.5°C by 2100. COP28 Goals Phase out fossil fuels. End fossil fuel subsidies. Triple renewable energy in seven years. Sultan Al Jaber's unusual [...]
Key facts about COP29 Event dates: November 11-22, 2024. Main topics: Climate finance and carbon markets. These focused on available funds and creating effective mechanisms for carbon markets. Location: Baku, Azerbaijan. President of COP29: Muxtar Babayev, Azerbaijan's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources President of Azerbaijan: Ilham Aliyev. Azerbaijan's economy: The country is a major [...]
Data from COP27 The 27th Conference of the Parties took place in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh, under the theme "Together for Implementation". With 35,000 people in attendance, including government representatives, observers, and members of civil society. COP27 took place between November 6 and 18, 2022, a year marked by extreme weather events across [...]
This Wednesday, September 24, 2025, the 2025 Climate Summit will be held at United Nations Headquarters. This event, convened by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, will address compliance with the Paris Agreement and the state of the fight against climate change. We have been asking ourselves the question that headlines this article almost since we created SGK-Planet [...]
COP 30 will be held in 2025 in Belém, Brazil, from November 10 to 21. Three decades have passed since COP 1 in Berlin, 1995, until COP 30. This period marks an important milestone in our planet's climate. Thirty is a round number, ideal for taking stock of the achievements and failures of the COPs [...]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that 2024 was the warmest year on record. Current projections predict that 2025 will be even warmer. Among the consequences of the unstoppable rise in temperature are extreme heat and cold waves, devastating floods, massive forest fires, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other catastrophic events. What are we [...]
Every year, March 22nd is World Water Day. This year's theme is the title at the top of this article. These three simple words, “save our glaciers”, already indicate the relationship between glaciers and freshwater. What is a glacier? Glaciers are large masses of ice and snow formed on the Earth's surface by the accumulation, [...]
At SGK-PLANET we have been reporting for fifteen years on how Global Warming and Climate Change are dominating us instead of us dominating them. Despite the number of Climate Conferences, Earth Summits, Protocols and Climate Agreements, for now the Earth's temperature continues its unstoppable increase year after year, with the recently concluded 2024 being the [...]
