On November 12, in the city of Belém, Brazil, on the sidelines of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-30), a thematic event entitled “Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on the Cryosphere and Its Effects on Small Island Developing States” was held at the initiative of UNESCO.
The event was dedicated to the launch of the implementation of the UN Resolution “Decade of Action for Cryosphere Sciences, 2025–2034,” adopted at the initiative of the Republic of Tajikistan and the French Republic.
In the opening session, a representative of the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan emphasized the importance of glacier protection as one of the key issues on the global agenda and called on participating states, as well as financial and regional organizations, to actively contribute to the implementation of the outcomes of the International High-Level Conference on Glacier Protection, held in May of this year in Dushanbe.
The event was also attended by and featured statements from the Special Envoy of France for Climate Change, as well as heads of several international organizations, including the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).
The participants expressed their support for the initiatives of the Republic of Tajikistan in the field of glacier protection.
