`Save our planet's ice.` Climate change threats reach the highest peak on Earth

Written By طقس العرب on 2023/06/01

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Weather of Arabia - Activists to protect the environment and lovers of mountain tourism in the world launched an international campaign to raise awareness of the threats of climate change to Mount Everest.

According to "News Click", the threats of climate change have reached the highest peak on Earth, which prompted mountain nature activists to launch an initiative titled "Save our planet's ice" or "Save Our Snow" to protect the areas that include ice around the world. The planet is in danger of melting

Previously, the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development had previously monitored threats to the ice surfaces of one of the most prominent mountain peaks in the world, in the Himalayas.

The center, which stands for ICIMOD and is headquartered in the Kathmandu region, announced the launch of a campaign involving mountain protection centers from around the world, including the Nepal Mountaineering Association and the Mountain Partnership, an alliance of volunteers to protect mountains under the auspices of the United Nations.

This gathering unites to launch a campaign to protect glaciers and save mountain tourism and mountainous landmarks around the world from the threat of global warming, under the unified slogan SaveOurSnow.

This campaign was launched on May 27, and during the first 48 years of its inauguration, it witnessed the volunteering of up to 1,000 people by May 29, including prominent personalities and political leaders, including the New Zealand Prime Minister and a number of diplomats. And legendary mountain climbers, and scientists

All of them were volunteers to sign the SaveOurSnow document, which calls on governments to fulfill their commitments to the climate agreement concluded in the French capital, Paris, to reduce greenhouse emissions and limit global warming.

The document also obligated the governments of the world, by implementing what was stated in the Paris Agreement, to completely stop coal extraction and oil and gas exploration operations, and to accelerate the pace of transformation to rely on clean energy in various sectors.

The threat currently facing Mount Everest comes 70 years after the success of the first climbers in the world to reach its summit, and scientists say that the rise in global temperatures will lead to the disappearance of two-thirds of the frozen rivers in the Everest region during the next seventy years, if decisive steps are not taken to address it. So

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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