8:30 Cryosphere Coordination Meeting
Daily coordination meetings and negotiations updates will be held every morning the Cryosphere Pavilion.
Contact: Stefan Ruchti (stefan@iccinet.org) or Pam Pearson (pam@iccinet.org)

10:00 Glacial Lake Outburst Floods and Flows: Responding to Climate Change Risks Related to the World’s Glaciers
This event aims to showcase the dangerous and deadly impacts of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in different glaciated mountain ranges (HKH, Andes) and underline the importance of GLOF disaster risk management, while bringing forward solutions to reduce multi-hazard risk associated with GLOFs. The event will include speakers from different regions and a presentation of the Adaptation at Altitude GLOF Solution Synthesis, produced in the context of the upcoming IYGP 2025.
Adaptation at Altitude Programme, Zoi Environment Network

11:30 Slow Onset, High Impact: What Permafrost Thaw, Erosion, Fres and Flooding Means for the Global 1.5°C Target
High-level scientific presentations on permafrost and its relevance to climate negotiations. Content will cover: Trends and understanding of permafrost thaw; the potential carbon dioxide and methane emissions from permafrost thaw and our current climate trajectory; the state of monitoring, measuring, and accounting for these emissions. The ecosystem “tipping” points that are already occurring across the permafrost region and which are likely to worsen and become more widespread as we approach 2°C.
Woodwell Climate Research Centre & Bolin Centre for Climate Research

13:00 New Budgets Confirm Permafrost Region is Already Warming the Climate
This session presents new research findings on the greenhouse gas budgets of permafrost region ecosystems developed in the RECCAP2 project. Studies show that the region is already warming the global climate. While Boreal forest remains a sink of carbon, large emissions of CO2 and CH4 from inland waters, wetlands, thawing permafrost and fires tip the balance to net warming. The session also provides an overview of new research programs designed to further improve regional greenhouse gas budgets using new satellite technologies.
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, European Space Agency, Global Carbon Project, Woodwell Climate Research Centre

14:30 Practicing Intergenerational Equity in Climate Negotiations
Exchange of experiences and best practices among youth party delegates to enhance their meaningful participation in UNFCCC negotiations, with a focus on identifying challenges, opportunities, and the unique contributions that young negotiators bring to shaping climate actions and policies that ensure intergenerational equity for future generations. This side event aims to promote and expand the network of youth advocates and party delegates, empowering them to participate in decision-making processes more meaningfully.
Republic of Chile, Switzerland, Climate Reality Project, Youth Negotiators Academy

16:00 Permafrost and Well-being in the Arctic
This session provides an overview of how permafrost interacts with well-being of humans and ecosystems in the Arctic. It presents new findings from large collaborative and projects involving indigenous and local Arctic residents and interdisciplinary research. This includes a comprehensive assessment of permafrost thaw risks to humans and infrastructure, an overview of ongoing efforts to understand permafrost in the context of One Health and discussions on observed land degradation and displacement of Arctic communities.
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Woodwell Climate Research Centre and the ILLUQ consortium

17:00 “The Great Thaw” Film Screening and Q&A
Screening of a 45-minute experimental documentary, “The Great Thaw” by Michaela Grill and Karl Lemieux that explores the effects of permafrost thaw on Arctic ecosystems. The film uses camera movements to create an abstract sense of the landscape, while intertitles provide scientific information about the consequences of inaction. The Great Thaw is a new part of the Ecological Grief Series which focuses on different aspects of human interaction with nature in the Anthropocene. The series investigates environmental melancholia and the loss of places, species and ecosystems. The filmmakers will introduce the film and permafrost scientists will be available for post-screening.
Woodwell Climate Research Centre

18:00 State of the Cryosphere 2024 Report

19:30 Meditation for Permafrost – A Moment of Stillness in a World of Climate Change
Through meditation, we can cultivate a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness between our actions and the health of the planet including the cryosphere. Let’s give time to find the inner peace and strength needed to commit to a path of sustainable living and continue to advocate for ambitious emissions reductions. Collectively we will generate active hope and empowerment by visualizing our future healthy planet with its restored delicate balance. Note: This event will take place multiple evenings this week.
Guided by meditation teachers from the Brahma Kumaris