UNESCO Expressed Concern: Many Glaciers Of The World In Crisis
UNESCO expressed concern: Many glaciers of the world are in crisis! It may end by 2050.
Due to global warming, the existence of some major glaciers in the world is feared to end.
According to a report by UNESCO, the cultural agency of the United Nations, these glaciers will end by the year 2050 due to global warming.
These include the Dolomites in Italy, Yosemite and Yellowstone Park in the United States, and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. UNESCO monitors about 18,600 glaciers out of its 50 World Heritage Sites.
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UNESCO said that a third of them would cease to exist by 2050.
According to the report, the rest of the glacier can be saved if the global temperature rise is kept below 1.5 °C (2.7 Fahrenheit).
About 50% of UNESCO World Heritage glaciers could be almost completely extinct by the year 2100.
UNESCO-protected World Heritage Glaciers represent about 10 percent of the world’s glacier areas. These include some of the most famous glaciers in the world, whose loss is highly visible.
According to the leading news agency, the report’s lead author, Tels Carvalho, told that World Heritage glaciers lose an average of about 58 billion tons of ice every year.
This is equal to the total annual amount of water used in France and Spain together. Contributes to about 5% of the globally observed sea level rise.
Carvalho said the most important protective measure to prevent the melting of major glaciers around the world would be to drastically reduce carbon emissions.
UNESCO expressed concern: UNESCO has advised that these glaciers may shrink further in the future.
This can create disaster risk, so local authorities should make glaciers a policy focus by improving monitoring and research and implementing disaster risk reduction measures.
Carvalho said that as glaciers fill lakes, they could burst and cause devastating floods.
