29-May-2025
Climate policy can save half of the world’s glaciers
College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
A new Science study warns that if temperatures rise to 2.7°C by 2100, only 24% of glacier mass would remain, contributing over nine inches to sea-level rise. Even with no further warming, 39% of glaciers are projected to vanish. However, if global targets like the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal are met, more than half of that loss could be avoided. The findings highlight what’s at stake for water, coastlines, and ecosystems in the UN’s International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation.
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- HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council, H2020 European Research Council, NASA Headquarters, Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, Universität Innsbruck, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Swiss National Science Foundation, Norwegian Research Council, World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Climate and Cryosphere Project (CliC), Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), VUB ZAP Startkrediet, Dutch Research Council (NWO) Talent Programme Veni, GRICAD infrastructure