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Earth Day 2025. Our Power, Our Planet

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 [...]

Save our glaciers

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, [...]

World Water Day 2025. Glacier preservation

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 [...]

Everything you need to know about COP29

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 [...]

Summary and conclusions on COP16 Cali-Colombia 2024. Conference on Biodiversity

Summary and conclusions on COP16 Cali-Colombia 2024. Conference on Biodiversity COP16 or the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties of the United Nations on Biological Diversity, took place between October 21 and November 1, 2024, in the city of Cali, Colombia. Its objective: "To promote sustainable development through a vision that involves ecosystems and people." General [...]

Brief history of the COPs – UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

©First published November 2015 – Updated October 2024 Your opinion counts . Starting next year we will start Calling our readers, a space so that you can write your comments on SGK-Planet on our usual topics, such as this Brief history of the COPs , and thus be able to join the fight against climate [...]

Report on COP16. United Nations Conference on Biodiversity 2024

General information about COP16 Duration: Oct 21 – Nov 01, 2024. Location: Cali, Colombia. President: Susana Muhammad González. Motto: Peace with nature. Objective: “Promote sustainable development through a vision that involves ecosystems and people.” Based on: the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, an international treaty presented in 1992 with the aim of conserving biological diversity [...]

World Oceans Day 2024: Awaken New Depths

On June 8, 2024, within the framework of the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences, we celebrate World Oceans Day, with the theme “Awaken new depths”. The oceans are considered the lungs of the Earth. They provide about 50% of the planet's oxygen and are responsible for a large part of the Earth's biodiversity. Their waters [...]

World Environment Day 2024

"Our land. Our future. We are #GenerationRestoration" Date: June 5, 2024 Host country: Saudi Arabia. Motto: “Our lands. Our future". Numeral: We are the #RestorationGeneration. UN: “World Environment Day 2024 focuses on restoring lands, stopping desertification and strengthening resilience to drought.” SGK-Planet opinion: In view of the urgency of the situation, every day of the [...]

The bell ringing of the last Venezuelan glacier

At the beginning of May 2024, the disappearance of the Humboldt Glacier, the last ice mass of its type in our country, made news. It was located in Mérida, in the Sierra Nevada of the same name. The Humboldt was the last Venezuelan glacier... and the first to disappear in the world. Our mountains will [...]

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