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Everything you need to know about COP28

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 [...]

What we know about the El Niño phenomenon 2023-2024

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, [...]

Climate Change, the SDGs and the Triple Planetary Crisis

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 [...]

Mother Earth Day 2023

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 that [...]

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

©First published November 2015 – Updated March 2023 From COP1 to COP28 The Brief History of the COP, Conference of the Parties, is a short summary or timeline of what has happened at the major annual climate conferences. The Brief History of the COP and the Brief History of the COP are original creations of [...]

The Paris Agreement and the difficulty of the “ambition” concept

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 [...]

Revitalization: collective action for the Ocean. World Oceans Day 2022

On June 8 we celebrate World Oceans Day 2022, this year framed in the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences and within which the Conference of the Oceans is held, between June 27 and July 1, 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal and which will be organized jointly with the government of Kenya. The theme of 2022 Revitalization: [...]

Summary and conclusions of COP26 Glasgow 2021

Introduction. Half a century lost before Glasgow. Summary of COP26. What is the Glasgow Climate Pact? Main objectives of COP26. Who were the absent leaders? The physical spaces. Opinions. COP26 conclusions Introduction Half a century lost before Glasgow In Stockholm-1972 the First Earth Summit was held. This meeting produced the "Stockholm Declaration", a document comparable [...]

The Paris Agreement the hope of humankind

While it is true that many people are expectant about the Paris Agreement, among other things because of its starting difficulties, it is also true that it is an extremely powerful document, accepted by almost every nation on the planet. It is a universal agreement that establishes measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This in [...]

From Kyoto to Paris, history of two climate agreements

The 1950s were times of mixed feelings. World War II was just over. The smell of gunpowder had not vanished when the reconstruction of Europe and Japan began. The people, although they did not forget their dead, began to live life in the hope that peace and well-being would be permanent. That vision of a [...]

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