According to Xinhua News Agency, Dubai, December 4 (Reporter Wang Yan Chen Mengyang) On the afternoon of the 3rd local time, at the side event on the theme of "Glacier Memory: Witnessing the Climate Crisis" held at the China Corner of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), delegates and guests called on the international community to attach great importance to and take immediate action to mitigate climate change and protect global glaciers.
Xie Zhenhua, China's Special Envoy for Climate Change, attended the side event and delivered a speech. He said that global warming has led to accelerated glacier melting, and he hopes that by focusing on such a very intuitive climate issue as glacier melting, it will arouse all sectors of society to pay more attention to climate change and promote more ambitious global climate action.
Xie Zhenhua said that in the face of the crisis of glacier melting, China has taken action to propose the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, sand and ice. He pointed out that the word "ice" is a deepening of the connotation of a community with a shared future for man and nature, and clarifies the importance of glacier protection. Bruno Pozi, Deputy Director of the UNEP Systems Ecology Branch, who attended the side event, said that there was an urgent need to protect glaciers, and he praised China's positive measures to protect them.
Glaciers are sensitive indicators of climate change, and the melting of glaciers caused by climate change is becoming more and more severe, and it is a global crisis. According to a study published in the American journal Science at the beginning of the year, the threat of climate change to the world's glaciers has exceeded scientists' previous expectations, and according to the current trend of global average temperature rise, nearly 70% of the world's land glaciers will completely melt by the end of this centuryEven if the realization is only warmed up by 1The "ideal" target of 5 degrees Celsius would also see nearly half of the land glaciers disappear.