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2022 State of the Cryosphere Report online now

07.11.2022

On 7 November 2022, the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) released the 2022 State of the Cryosphere Report at the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

Released annually, the Report takes the pulse of the cryosphere and its response to climate change to inform negotiators and governments. Among the key cryosphere dynamics on which the Report focuses are mountain glaciers and snow. The Report also covers the latest science and policy implications related to ice sheets/sea level rise, permafrost, polar oceans and sea ice, each of which also has serious global impacts on people and ecosystems around the world, including Mountain Partnership member countries.

The 2022 Report – the second in the series – was reviewed and supported by more than 60 leading cryosphere scientists, many of them Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change authors. It emphasizes the growing scale and frequency this past year of extreme cryosphere events, and their spreading consequences in the face of persistent year-on-year rises in CO2 concentrations, climate pledges notwithstanding.

The Report aims to encourage policymakers to act more quickly and ambitiously to reduce emissions to prevent the worst and most irreversible global impacts and damage from cryosphere loss; emphasize the importance of a healthy cryosphere for the global climate system; and emphasize societal impacts globally, with relevance to diverse policymakers and public, including those for whom cryosphere seems "remote".

The Report can be downloaded from ICCI's website: https://iccinet.org/statecryo2022/

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