International Year of Glaciers' Preservation
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The year 2025 was declared the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation (IYGP2025) by the United Nations General Assembly to "highlight the importance of glaciers and ensure that those relying on them...receive the necessary.. services".[1] The declaration was made at a request the mountainous country of Tajikistan made during 2022.[2] Melting ice and glaciers threaten water security in many regions, including Tajikistan.[3][4]
Objectives of the declaration include:
- Raising awareness of melting glaciers.
- Advocating changes in policy and sustainable measures to preserve glaciers.[5][6]
This commemoration is co-facilitated by UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization.[7][8][9] The official launch will occur on March 21, which is also now the World Day for Glaciers.[10][11] The International Conference of Glaciers' Preservation will last from the May 29 -- June 1 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.[12]
Glaciers yield important information and data about ecosystem health and history; atmospheric gases are preserved within the layers of ice offering a precise timeline of what Earth's atmosphere has been throughout history.[13]
There are more than 275,000 glaciers in the world, covering about 700,000 km², and storing about 170,000 km3 of ice. This adds up to about 70% of the global freshwater.[14]
The global sea-level rise of 20 cm from 1900 is believed to be a result of melting glaciers. [15]
References
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- ^ Frederikse, Thomas; Landerer, Felix; Caron, Lambert; Adhikari, Surendra; Parkes, David; Humphrey, Vincent W.; Dangendorf, Sönke; Hogarth, Peter; Zanna, Laure; Cheng, Lijing; Wu, Yun-Hao (August 2020). "The causes of sea-level rise since 1900". Nature. 584 (7821): 393–397. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2591-3. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 32814886.