Limiting Global Warming to 1.5C Could Save Two-Thirds of Asia’s Glacier Ice

Keeping global temperature rise to no more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels could ensure that two-thirds of the ice stored in Asia’s high-mountain glaciers is still around at the end of the century, a new study says.

These glaciers provide water to at least 800 million people living in Asia.

However, it could be too late to save all of Asia’s iconic snowy landscape, the lead author tells Carbon Brief.  The research finds that, if global greenhouse gas emissions were stopped today, 14% of Asia’s glacier ice would still disappear by the end of the century.

And, if no efforts are made to curb global greenhouse gas emissions, two-thirds of the glacier ice in Asia’s high mountains could vanish by 2100, the study says.

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