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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Below we present the most relevant data and comments on COP28 to begin on November 30, 2023. Name of the event: COP28 or 28th Conference of the Parties. Date: From November 30 to December 12, 2023. Location: United Arab Emirates, Dubai City, Expo City Dubai Congress Centre. Motto: “Unite, act, deliver results.” Central objective: Maintain [...]
Includes recommendations to minimize in advance the effects of the El Niño phenomenon Scientists estimate that the 2023-2024 El Niño, exacerbated by the climate crisis, will likely raise global temperatures to new records in 2024. The most recent of these events was El Niño 2015-2016. After seven years of pause, it is among us again, [...]
At the midpoint since the creation of the Agenda 2030 was approved, in 2015, and its implementation date in 2030, the 2023 SDG Summit is held in New York, headquarters of the United Nations, preceded by the report United in Science 2023 of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The report, which is annual and with [...]
Every year, on April 22, International Mother Earth Day is celebrated. A motto is chosen for the occasion. For this year 2023, has been chosen: “Invest in our planet”. It is a message to work for a green and sustainable planet that offers the opportunity to live on a healthy planet, through a green economy [...]
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 [...]
