{"id":24684,"date":"2023-12-01T22:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=24684"},"modified":"2023-12-01T22:40:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:55:05","slug":"guterres-to-attend-cop28-meeting-with-heads-of-state-of-mountain-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/guterres-to-attend-cop28-meeting-with-heads-of-state-of-mountain-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Guterres to attend COP28 meeting with heads of state of mountain countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kathmandu\u2014 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will attend a high-level roundtable with heads of state of mountain countries on December 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres will join Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Prime Minister of Nepal, and heads of state and delegations including Xavier Espot Zamora, the Prime Minister of Andorra, Zheenbek Kulubaev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, and Uros Vajgl, the State Secretary of Slovenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The roundtable follows Guterres’ recent visit to the Himalayas, where the cascading impacts of climate change threaten a quarter of the world\u2019s population, as well as the recognition given to mountains in the COP28 President\u2019s Opening Plenary, which mandated the issue be taken up under the Nairobi work program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The roundtable also follows the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development\u2019s (ICIMOD) submission to Friday evening\u2019s high-level event on the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage convened by UNFCCC Adaptation Division. Izabella Koziell, ICIMOD Deputy Director General, will state the urgent imperative to prioritize the Hindu Kush Himalaya for Loss and Damage compensation. Koziell will argue for a rapid scaling up of funding to understand rapid and slow onset events, to help the vast population sizes exposed to these events (240 million in the mountains and a billion downstream) adapt, and to compensate communities for losses and damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Government of Nepal event on Saturday, Koziell will present the most up-to-date research on the impacts of cryosphere change on the Himalaya region, linking to ICIMOD\u2019s report<\/strong><\/u><\/a> which found glaciers in the region could lose up to 80% of their current volume by the end of the century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMountain regions are highly sensitive to environmental change,\u201d says Koziell. \u201cThe Himalayan glaciers in the 2010s melted 65 percent faster than the previous decade, which is generating cascading climate risks. Disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity across the region, and communities, particularly the most vulnerable, are struggling to cope with the onslaught of droughts, floods, and extreme weather. These hazards are also wiping out investments in infrastructure – including hydropower and roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe pace of climate change across the Himalayan mountain range is generating enormous economic losses. Those most impacted but least to blame must be compensated, and leaders gathered in COP28 must make emergency emissions reductions now to avert even more catastrophic impacts in this, one of the world\u2019s most populated zones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delegates will also hear from Pam Pearson, Director of the International Climate Cryosphere Initiative (ICCI), on its 2023 State of the Cryosphere report. The report shows that all of the Earth\u2019s frozen parts will experience irreversible damage at just 2\u00b0C of global warming. “Remaining within 1.5\u00b0C is the only way to prevent an accelerating chain of catastrophic events, economic loss, and growing political instability\u201d, says Pearson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c2023 has been a year of climate disasters and ice loss, which has underlined the urgent need for global leaders to recognize that two degrees is too high for Earth\u2019s cryosphere,\u201d concluded Pam Pearson, Director of ICCI. \u201cToday\u2019s landmark report shows that we need to take 2\u00b0C off the table.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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