The United Nations' weather agency announced Tuesday it was making the cryosphere a new top priority, saying the melting of sea ice, glaciers and permafrost posed a global threat. | ManilaBulletin
Member states at the UN's World Meteorological Organization are concerned about the impacts of melting ice on sea levels, natural disasters, ecosystems and economies.
Nations far from the polar regions, such as in the Caribbean and Africa, voiced concerns that changes in the cryosphere would affect the whole planet. Besides implementing the 2015 Paris climate accords and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the WMO said better monitoring was needed to track the scale and speed of change."And we really need to think hard about water resource management."The melting of glaciers and the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets account for about 50 percent of sea level rise, which is accelerating.
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