UNESCO says that glaciers in one third of World Heritage sites will disappear by 2050 regardless of the applied climate scenario.
PARIS, France – Some of the world’s most famous glaciers, including in the Dolomites in Italy, the Yosemite and Yellowstone parks in the United States, and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania are set to disappear by 2050 due to global warming, whatever the temperature rise scenario, according to a UNESCO report.
While the rest can be saved by keeping global temperature rise below 1.5 degree Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels, in a business-as-usual emissions scenario, about 50% of these World Heritage glaciers could almost entirely disappear by 2100. She added that the UN’s COP27 cimate conference will have a crucial role to help find solutions to this issue.
The report’s lead author Tales Carvalho told Reuters that World Heritage glaciers lose on average some 58 billion tons of ice every year – equivalent to the total annual volume of water used in France and Spain together – and contribute to almost 5% of global observed sea-level rise.
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