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 [...]
This year, 2025, we celebrate the 55th Anniversary of Earth Day, and the theme "Our Power, Our Planet" has been chosen to develop the April 22nd Earth Day campaign. Let's go back in time to the history of this Earth Day celebration. In 1970, April 22nd was established as a day dedicated to recognizing the [...]
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, [...]
On the occasion of the celebration of World Water Day and 2025 being the “International Year for the Preservation of Glaciers”, the United Nations Assembly (UN) agreed to designate March 21 as World Glacier Day starting in 2025. The United Nations sets the objective for celebrating World Glacier Day: Raise global awareness of the critical [...]
For this year, 2025, the United Nations has decided to celebrate the International Day of Forests with the theme “Forests and Foods”, to recognize the fundamental importance of all types of forests for their impact on “food security, nutrition, and livelihoods”. The goal is to raise awareness about the importance of forests for the planet, [...]
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 [...]
Relevant data on COP29 Event duration : November 11-22, 2024 Name : COP29 or 29th Conference of the Parties. This year’s main themes: Climate finance and carbon markets. These focused on the funding available and creating effective mechanisms for carbon markets. The notable absentees: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President [...]
Here we present the most relevant data on COP29. Event duration: November 11-22, 2024. Name: COP29 Baku 2024 or 29th Conference of the Parties. Location: Baku, Azerbaijan. President : Mukhtar Babayev Population: 10.11 million (World Bank, 2023) Motto: In solidarity for a green world Logo: What to expect from COP29 Reducing carbon emissions, adapting [...]
