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<\/p>\n\n Click here to watch all Side Event Recordings<\/span>\n <\/i><\/a>\n\nMonday, Nov. 10 | Connections Between Amazon\u00eda and Cryosphere<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 14:00-15:15 | Grounded on Ice: Early Career Scientists Bridging the Cryosphere and Our Future <\/strong> Tuesday, Nov. 11 | Feasible Pathways to 1.5\u00b0C Emissions Reductions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 10:00-10:45 | Scientific Revisions, Policy Decisions: Climate Effect of Black Carbon in the Arctic\u00a0<\/strong> 14:00-15:15 | Climate Overshoot Challenges: Peatland Warming, Risky Assumptions, and Temporary CDR Solutions<\/strong> 19:45 | Indigenous-Led Initiatives to Govern Frozen Commons Wednesday Nov. 12 | Polar Oceans<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 10:00-10:45 | The Future of Tropical Glaciers Relies on Today\u2019s Policies 14:00-15:15 | Super Pollutants, Arctic Shipping, Myths and Realities<\/strong> 17:00-18:15 |\u00a0Navigating Arctic Ocean Protection: Current Status and Future Directions <\/strong> Thursday, Nov. 13 | Ice Sheets\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 10:00-10:45 | Warming of 1.5\u00b0C is Too High for Polar Ice Sheets<\/strong> 15:30-16:45 | Bridging Climate Finance Gaps: Lessons from Bangladesh\u2019s Coast and Hilly Areas<\/strong> 18:30-19:45 | Launch of the State of the Cryosphere Report 2025 19:45 | Frozen Heritage & Sinking Islands: The Fight to Preserve Culture in a Warming World\u00a0<\/strong> Friday, Nov. 14 | Permafrost <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 15:00-16:30, UNFCCC Side Event |\u00a0The Perils of Ignoring Science and 1.5\u00b0C at COP30: Tipping Points in the Cryosphere, Their Impacts, and How to Avoid Them<\/strong>While some actors try to undermine the 1.5\u00b0C Paris Agreement target at COP30, scientists at least are aligned: overshooting 1.5\u00b0C brings severe and potentially irreversible impacts for polar regions and the Earth\u2019s ice and snow, which in turn will cause loss and damage all over the world. The latest State of the Cryosphere<\/a> report\u00a0details those impacts, but also highlights\u00a0new ambitious ways forward\u00a0\u2013\u00a0if obstructionists at COP30 stop denying physical reality. 15:30-16:45 |\u00a0<\/span>Permafrost-Climate Feedbacks & How is Permafrost Mapped from Space and on the Ground?<\/strong>
\nOur team Early Career Scientists volunteering at the Cryosphere Pavilion during Week 1 will give presentations on their research and fieldwork in the cryosphere, explaining the global importance of polar ice sheets, mountain glaciers and snow, permafrost, polar oceans, and sea ice.
\nICCI<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThis session will address policy communication to explain this revision, which is largely the result of emission data and improved methods of modelling interactions of atmospheric components. It will show results about the evolving understanding of the behavior and impacts of BC and why policy should continue to emphasize rapid reductions in BC emissions in the Arctic and beyond.
\nClean Air Fund, Climate and Clean Air Coalition, AMAP<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWith 2024 marking the first year above 1.5\u00b0C, focus grows on overshoot and carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Research reveals peatland warming increases CDR needs, while a new method to include temporary CDR into climate policy offers a way to offset short-lived climate forces. New research shows the increasing challenges for societies facing an overshoot world and calls for critical policy evaluation to meet climate targets.
\nInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE), Climate Analytics<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>As the cryosphere rapidly melts, there is an urgent need to understand what this means for these frozen commons\u2014snow, ice, and permafrost-based environments \u2014 governed by people whose livelihoods and cultures depend on them, and for planetary sustainability. Arctic Indigenous Peoples have been on the front lines of witnessing the effects of ice and permafrost degradation and of adapting to change through long-term, detailed observations and monitoring. The event invites Indigenous Peoples, nomadic communities, scientists, artists, and policymakers to discuss how to combine cutting-edge research with Indigenous and traditional knowledge, to create and enforce alliances between Arctic Indigenous Peoples and other stakeholders, and make informed decisions on the governance of the cryosphere that impact future generations.
\nArctic Athabascan Council and Polar Bears International, GWU, Yukaghir Elders Council, World Reindeer Herders, CCRCC, Mongolia<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The mass loss of glaciers globally significantly impacts sea-level rise, freshwater resources, tourism, culture, and more. Here we discuss the latest glacier projections and how our actions as a society, by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, can reduce the severity of these impacts. These impacts from glacier mass loss are experienced at both global and local scales thus highlighting the utility of global glacier projections in combination with localized work to support adaptation and mitigation strategies.
\n<\/strong>Carnegie Mellon University, ICCI, IPCC SROCC<\/em><\/p>\n
\nImmediately reducing emissions of super pollutants \u2013 short-lived climate forcers \u2013 is the best option to avoid runaway Arctic warming and remain below 1.5C. Methane, ozone and black carbon are responsible for nearly half of global warming experienced to date, yet black carbon emissions from shipping remain unregulated and liquified natural gas is marketed as \u201cgreen fuel\u201d. This event will bust myths while highlighting the need for urgent action by Arctic shipping to protect the Arctic cryosphere.
\nClean Arctic Alliance, AMAP, Equal Routes, International Maritime Organization (IMO), WWF<\/p>\n
\nThe Arctic Ocean is under increasing pressure from climate change, with sea ice loss, ocean acidification, warming and freshening occurring more rapidly in the Arctic compared to the rest of the global ocean. This event considers what is needed to protect this vulnerable ecosystem. We bring together a range of voices to discuss what roles different players have and how best to move science forward in order to allow Indigenous and local communities to adapt to changing conditions. While also raising critical considerations for mitigation and future sustainable use of the Arctic Ocean.
\nPlymouth Marine Laboratory, Moore Foundation, 90 North Foundation, WWF, AMAP, Inuit Council<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets has quadrupled since the 1990s. This has raised concerns about their future stability and focused attention on the temperature thresholds that might trigger more rapid retreat or even collapse, with renewed calls to meet the more ambitious target of the Paris Climate Agreement and limit warming to 1.5\u2009\u00b0C. This side event will summarize recent evidence to show that 1.5\u2009\u00b0C is too high and that even current climate forcing (1.2 \u00b0C), if sustained, is likely to generate several meters of sea-level rise over the coming centuries, causing extensive loss and damage to coastal populations and challenging the implementation of adaptation measures. To avoid this requires a global mean temperature that is cooler than present, highlighting the need to rapidly reduce emissions; and reinforcing recent calls for a stricter and more ambitious long-term temperature goal for a safe and just future for planet Earth.
\nDurham University, Potsdam University, Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Max-Planck Institute for Geoanthropology<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBangladesh\u2019s coastal belt and hilly areas face adverse climate impacts due to diverse climatic hazards, including cyclones, sea-level rise, salinity, floods, and landslides. The coastal region receives climate financing for different adaptation and mitigation interventions; however, hilly areas lag in receiving adequate climate finance for implementing such measures. This session will explore financing gaps, regional disparities, and recommendations to ensure inclusive, appropriate adaptation and loss and damage responses.
\nMinistry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change of Bangladesh, Ministry of Finance of Bangladesh, University of Dundee, Centre for Climate Change and Environment Research (C3ER) at BRAC University<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Latest research detailed in the 2025 State of the Cryosphere Report notes thresholds likely at just 1\u00b0C of warming for the stability of the polar ice sheets, and even lower temperatures for many glaciers. The Report also notes however that the most proactive climate pathways, also released today, can bring down temperatures below 1.5\u00b0C by 2100 and below 1\u00b0C next century \u2013 but only if reductions begin immediately.
\nICCI<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAs an environmental photographer, explorer, and public speaker, I operate at the intersection of climate, science, and culture, using visual storytelling to raise awareness about the human dimension of environmental crises. Over the past decade, I\u2019ve documented fragile ecosystems and cultures from Antarctica to the Pacific and Arctic regions, often in close collaboration with scientific institutions and UN-affiliated bodies. Key themes: how cultural identity is threatened by climate change; the role of photography and storytelling in driving public engagement and policy attention; case studies from the Pacific Islands, Antarctica, and the Arctic; and integrating resilience, adaptation, and heritage preservation in climate strategies.
\nChristian Clauwers<\/em><\/p>\n
\nCOP30 Blue Zone,\u00a0Side Event Room 9, Area C<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nScientific presentations will focus on permafrost dynamics and their relevance for ongoing\u00a0climate negotiations. Speakers will summarize the state of knowledge on permafrost thaw; the potential carbon dioxide and methane emissions anticipated under present warming trends; and the status of efforts to monitor, measure, and account\u00a0for these emissions. They will further discuss ecosystem tipping points now unfolding across the permafrost region, which are projected to worsen and become more widespread if global temperatures approach\u00a02\u00b0C.<\/span>
\nBolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI),\u00a0European Space Agency<\/em><\/p>\n