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 [...]
Desertification and drought are issues that affect the entire planet and consequently the populations of all regions, so their interest is worldwide. This June 17th is the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. For 2023 the theme is “Her land. Her rights”. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) does so through an [...]
Our planet, Earth, is a planet of water and for this reason it is the essential source of life, without it nothing exists. The theme for World Oceans Day 2023 is “Ocean planet: tides are changing” as part of the activities of the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences 2021-2030. Our oceans represent close to 70% [...]
This June 5th marks the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day, with the theme “Beat plastic pollution” and promoting the search for solutions to this problem. The General Assembly of the United Nations in 1972 established the date, directed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), being celebrated from June 5 since 1973. This year [...]
Two headlines published this year, which speak for themselves: “2023-2027 will probably be the hottest five-year period on record”. “Exxon posts record $56bn profit for 2022 in historic high for western oil industry”. The first refers, as published on its website France24 (05.17.2023), to “It is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period [...]
The instantaneous speed of cybernetic “thought” is not comparable to anything or anyone. We have read that robots win almost every trial they participate in. That there is practically no chess match that a machine loses. That with AI you can write a novel in minutes. That it is relatively easy with AI to copy [...]
This May 22, International Day for Biological Diversity, is dedicated to the conservation of biodiversity. In this way, the historic agreement “Kumming-Montreal Global Framework for Biological Diversity” is promoted, reached by the representatives of the 188 participating governments, and signed on December 19, 2022, the last day of the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity Biological [...]
When we open our eyes this morning (May 07, 2023) we find ourselves with two news items in full swing. “Canada evacuates 25,000 people due to forest fires”. “Some 25,000 people in Canada were forced to flee their homes by 103 wildfires that broke out in the western province of Alberta, where the local government [...]
Contents Introduction to COP27 / The COP27 agenda / Where and when it took place / Who is who at COP27 / The great absentees / Those who did appear / The vision of the COP27 presidency / Mitigation and adaptation / Minimum advances in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions / Extension for the [...]
