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MELTING ICE
A HOT TOPIC
Climate Change and the Cryosphere
May 2007
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TUNZA Magazine
Helen Bjørnøy, Minister of the
Environment of Norway...
...asks for commitment at the political,
corporate and grassroots level to combat
climate change.

a different planet - page 7
Roberto Dobles, Minister of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica and President of UNEP’s Governing Council and the Global Ministerial Environment Forum...

agenda for action - page 9
...outlines new solutions for an accumulating problem, and describes how his country is aiming to become carbon neutral.
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change... ...calls for political leadership to revive international negotiations - and keep the world’s ice frozen.


new dynamics - page 12
Sheila Watt-Cloutier,
2005 UNEP Champion of the Earth for North America, and International Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference
2002–2006...
...argues that the effects of climate change on the Arctic and its people should be seen as a matter of human rights.

a human issue - page 14
Qin Dahe, co-Chair, Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change and, until April 2007, Administrator of the China Meteorological Administration...
...examines the challenge before the world’s fastest developing nation.
china: climate change

and development - page 16
Susana Bischoff, Graciela Canziani and
Patricia Centurión,
explain the importance of water from glaciers and snowmelt in Latin America and suggest how to adapt to its disappearance.

snow, ice and life - page 18
Basanta Shrestha, Division Head of Mountain Environment and Natural Resources Information System at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development... ...describes the rapid retreat of the glaciers of the Himalayas and calls for urgent action to tackle the resulting dangers.

mountain tsunamis - page 20
Linda Fisher, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of Dupont...

action works - page 22
...calls for a coordinated global approach for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Peter Garrett, rock star, campaigner and politician... ...describes climate change
generation opportunity.

green soundtrack - page 27