All the glaciers in Africa, the glaciers in France and Spain and those in the Dolomite Alps in Italy and also those in Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks in the USA, will be erased from the map
A third of the glaciers on Unesco’s World Heritage list will have disappeared by 2050 “whatever the climate scenario”, the UN organization warned today, calling for “immediate reductions in carbon dioxide emissions” in order to keep the remaining two-thirds.
The report concerns 18,600 glaciers with a total size of 66,000 square kilometers located in 50 world heritage sites, i.e. 10% of the total glacier surface on Earth, “representative” of the state of glaciers worldwide, Unesco said.
All its glaciers Africa which have been included in the Unesco list of cultural heritage sites “likely to disappear” by 2050, mainly those in Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania.
In Europe the glaciers in the Pyrenees in France and Spain are expected to disappear, as are those in the Dolomite Alps in Italy and in Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks in USA.
The volume of glaciers in the Three Parallel Rivers Protected Area in Yunnan Province of China halved and are currently melting faster than the rest.
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“Approximately 50% of World Heritage glaciers may be almost completely gone by 2100, under a scenario where gas emissions remain at current levels,” Unesco warned.
As well as calling for “dramatic” reductions in greenhouse gases, Unesco is calling for “a global fund to monitor and conserve glaciers”.
According to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published this spring, the melting of glaciers and snow is one of the ten biggest threats of climate change.
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The world heritage site’s glaciers are melting at a rate of 58 billion tonnes of ice a year, the same volume of water used annually by France and Spain, contributing to sea level rise, Unesco said.
Two-thirds of these glaciers “could be saved if we limit the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius,” he added.
The UN Climate Conference (COP27), which will be held from November 6 to 18 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, will be “crucial for finding solutions”, underlined Audrey Azoulet, director of Unesco.
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