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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
©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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
