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ISBN: 978-92-807-2799-9
Job No: DEW/0924/NA
This book is about ice and snow in polar and mountain regions of the The Global Outlook for Ice and Snow was pre-
world. It covers all parts of the cryosphere (the world of ice): snow, land
pared by the United Nations Environment Pro-
ice, sea ice, river and lake ice, and frozen ground. It presents information
gramme and written by more than 70 scientists
on the trends in ice and snow, the outlook for this century and beyond,
from around the world. It brings together the lat-
and the consequences to ecosystems and human well-being of changes in
est findings and the latest thinking on ice and
ice and snow.
snow and climate change.
The Global Outlook for Ice and Snow is an official
But this book is also about sea-level rise and the islands in the South Pa-
project of the International Polar Year 2007-2008
cific, and about shrinking glaciers and the great rivers of Asia. It is about
and captures the state of knowledge on polar ice
the way the Earth’s climate is changing and causing ice and snow to melt –
and snow at the outset of this ambitious two-
and how melting ice and snow are changing the Earth’s climate. year campaign of international research.