IPCC statement on the melting of Himalayan glaciers (2010)

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This is a one-page statement issued by the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Geneva, dated 20 January 2010, on the melting of Himalayan glaciers.

The statement quotes the Synthesis Report of the panel’s Fourth Assessment Report, which noted that climate change is expected to exacerbate stresses on water resources, that mountain snow pack, glaciers and small ice caps play a crucial role in freshwater availability, and that widespread glacier mass losses are projected to accelerate through the twenty-first century in regions such as the Hindu-Kush, Himalaya and Andes. The document affirms that this broad conclusion is robust and consistent with the underlying science. This page describes the statement only from its own text.

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