Prof Lyla Mehta says the glacial floods and loss of life are a stark reminder that climate disruption is global and highly unequal. They reflect accelerating climate disruption that disproportionately affects the countries and people that are least responsible for global emissions.
Prof Lyla Mehta says the glacial floods and loss of life are a stark reminder that climate disruption is global and highly unequal.
They reflect accelerating climate disruption that disproportionately affects the countries and people that are least responsible for global emissions.
No one died when a Swiss glacier collapsed last year, owing to early-warning systems that were in place.
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Prof Lyla Mehta says the glacial floods and loss of life are a stark reminder that climate disruption is global and highly unequal. They reflect accelerating climate disruption that disproportionately affects the countries and people that are least responsible for global emissions. No one died when a Swiss glacier collapsed last year, owing to early-warning systems that were in place.
As climate change intensifies, glaciers around the world, including in the Himalayas, are melting at unprecedented rates, destabilising ecosystems and causing glacial collapse and ice-and-rock landslides, destroying settlements, villages and livelihoods in minutes.
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