General Information Event Dates: November 10-21, 2025 Name: COP30 or 30th Conference of the Parties, Belém 2025, Amazonia Brazil Main Topics: Climate finance, emissions mitigation, climate change adaptation, fossil fuel reduction, forest protection, and biodiversity support Leaders absent from COP30: Donald Trump (USA), Xi Jinping (China), Vladimir Putin (Russia), and Narendra Modi (India), leaders of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Forests and innovation: new solutions for a better world Every March 21 we celebrate the International Day of Forests, and a theme is selected each year to develop for that celebration. In 2024 it has been dedicated to “Forests and innovation: new solutions for a better world”. The great advances in innovation and technology have [...]
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 [...]
