Kenny Stancil is senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project and a former staff writer for Common Dreams.
Glaciers in one-third of the 50 World Heritage sites where they are found are set to disappear by 2050 even if planet-heating emissions are curbed, the United Nations warned in a report published Thursday. 'Glaciers are crucial sources of life on Earth.' Extant greenhouse gas pollution has locked in so much global warming that even if temperature rise is limited to 1.5degC above preindustrial levels--a goal the U.N.
Director-General Audrey Azoulay said in a statement. 'Only a rapid reduction in our CO2 emissions levels can save glaciers and the exceptional biodiversity that depends on them.' Referring to the U.N. climate summit in Egypt that starts on Sunday, Azoulay said: 'COP27 will have a crucial role to help find solutions to this issue.
is determined to support states in pursuing this goal.' As the report explains: Around 18,600 glaciers have been identified in 50 World Heritage sites. These glaciers span an area of about 66,000 km2, representing almost 10% of the Earth's glacierized area. Research studies performed with satellite data highlight that these glaciers have been retreating at an accelerating rate since 2000 .
shared examples of endangered glaciers by region. Africa According to available data, glaciers in all World Heritage sites in Africa will very likely be gone by 2050, including Kilimanjaro National Park and Mount Kenya. Asia Glaciers in Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas have suffered the highest mass loss relative to 2000 and also contain the fastest melting glacier on the list. Glaciers in Western Tien-Shan have shrunk by 27% since 2000.
and IUCN: 'At site level, adaptative measures need to be strengthened to respond to inevitable glacier changes in the near future. These include identifying knowledge gaps and improving monitoring networks, designing and implementing early warning and disaster risk reduction measures, making glaciers a focus of targeted policy, and promoting knowledge exchange, stakeholder engagement, and communication.
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