{"id":2502,"date":"2021-10-21T18:31:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iccinet.org\/?page_id=2502"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:33:20","slug":"statecryo21","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/statecryo21\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Cryosphere Report 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Without More Ambitious NDCs, Cryosphere Changes Risk Unstoppable \u2013 and Permanent \u2013 Climate Breakdown<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>This new Report, reviewed and supported by nearly 50 leading cryosphere scientists, over half of them IPCC authors, details how a combination of melting polar ice sheets, vanishing glaciers, and thawing permafrost will have rapid, irreversible, and disastrous effects on the Earth\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>The State of the Cryosphere Report will become an annual effort taking the pulse of the cryosphere, the name given to Earth\u2019s snow and ice regions, ranging from ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost to sea ice and the polar oceans \u2013 which are acidifying far more rapidly than warmer waters. Download the first edition below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Christiana Figueres, former UNFCCC Executive Secretary<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/State-of-the-Cryosphere-Report-2021.pdf\" target=\"_self\" class=\"button primary\"  >\n    <span>Download the report<\/span>\n  <\/a>\n\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1714253098\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1668730707\" class=\"col medium-4 small-12 large-4\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_865637477\">\n\t\t<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/State-of-the-Cryosphere-Report-2021.pdf\"  >\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2021.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\n<style>\n#image_865637477 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-518372384\" class=\"col medium-8 small-12 large-8\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1271113982\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Citation:<\/strong> ICCI, 2021. State of the Cryosphere 2021 \u2013 A Needed Decade of Urgent Action. International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI), Stockholm, Sweden. 52 pp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong> 26 October 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOI: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.18155066\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.18155066<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-1271113982 {\n  text-align: left;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Reviewers\/Authors include:<\/strong><br \/>Gu\u00f0finna A\u00f0algeirsd\u00f3ttir, AR6 Lead Author<br \/>Richard B. Alley, IPCC AR4 Lead Author<br \/>Jonathan Bamber, IPCC AR6\u00a0WG1, AR5 Expert Reviewer, AR4 WG1 Review Editor, Former President, European Geosciences Union<br \/>Julie Brigham-Grette, Former Chair, U.S. Polar Research Board<br \/>Robert DeConto, IPCC SROCC Lead Author<br \/>Andrea Dutton, University of Wisconsin-Madison<br \/>Regine Hock, IPCC AR4 Contributing Author, SROCC Coordinating Lead Author, AR6 Contributing Author<br \/>Georg Kaser, AR5 WG1 Lead Author<br \/>Ronald Kwok, IPCC AR5 Lead Author<br \/>Dirk Notz, IPCC AR6 WG1 Lead Author<br \/>Ben Marzeion, SROCC Lead Author, AR5 and AR6 WG1 Contributing Author<br \/>Ben Orlove, SROCC Lead Author<br \/>Joeri Rogelj, IPCC CLA AR5, SR1.5 and AR6, Imperial College London<br \/>Heidi Steltzer, Fort Lewis College and SROCC Lead Author<br \/>Michiel Schaeffer, IPCC AR5<br \/>Edward (Ted) Schuur, IPCC SROCC Lead Author<br \/>Drew Shindell, IPCC CLA SR1.5<br \/>Martin Sommerkorn, IPCC SROCC Coordinating Lead Author<br \/>Juliene Stroeve, IPCC SROCC Contributing Author<br \/>Merritt Turetsky, Director, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), IPCC SROCC Contributing Author<br \/>Roderik van de Wal, IPCC SROCC Contributing Author<br \/>Philippus Wester, ICIMOD, AR6 Lead Author<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without More Ambitious NDCs, Cryosphere Changes Risk Unstoppable \u2013 and Permanent \u2013 Climate Breakdown This new Report, reviewed and supported by nearly 50 leading cryosphere scientists, over half of them IPCC authors, details how a combination of melting polar ice sheets, vanishing glaciers, and thawing permafrost will have rapid, irreversible, and disastrous effects on the [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2502","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7380,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2502\/revisions\/7380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}