The objective of this research is to rethink the functions of Urban Geology and its relationship with indicators of environmental sustainability in urban settlements, produced by the activity of socio-spatial segregation and geological phenomena typical of the internal and external geodynamics of the Earth. The study was carried out under the focus of documentary analysis, considering the author's critical appraisal paradigm. Five indicators of sustainability were identified: adequate use of urban land, water coverage, capacity to generate clean energy, design of waste disposal spaces, coverage in the management of intra-urban drainage systems, and risk indexes in the event of natural disasters, last, subdivided into five sub-indicators that depend on the geological phenomenology in effect. For the achievement of the purposes, Urban Geology uses alternative multidisciplinary methods to g...

From October 30 to November 13-2021, COP26 was held in Glasgow, Scotland, with the aim of reviewing the goals of the Paris Agreement-2015, the cross-cutting goals of the 2030 Agenda and proposing new commitments-in the face of urgency-for fight global warming. As a result of the important meeting, an attempt is made to carry out a critical assessment of the agreements reached at the summit under the focus of the documentary analysis of the commitments reached and their historical relationship with previous summits. The agreed key points are based on keeping the temperature rise below 1.5 °C, proposing to reduce GHG emissions by 45% by 2030 and zero emissions by 2050, doubling the financial contributions of developed countries, with the premise of eliminating fossil fuels. Faced with the potentially catastrophic climate reality that is approaching, the levels of action of the agreements ...