{"id":8307,"date":"2026-11-08T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/?page_id=8307"},"modified":"2026-11-09T23:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T23:16:28","slug":"ice-matters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/ice-matters\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Raising the Importance of Cryosphere at COP31<\/strong><\/h2>\n\t<div id=\"gap-837824263\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-837824263 {\n  padding-top: 14px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/oMHeJxfHaVwjypS67\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button primary\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"border-radius:99px;\">\n\t\t<span>Click Here to Sign the Petition: Ice Matters<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1IfNmGqmfnjeU3xKYpSTHTpLVIkguLdOwkElgBpeqYWE\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button primary is-outline\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"border-radius:99px;\">\n\t\t<span>View the Latest List of Signatures<\/span>\n\t<i class=\"icon-expand\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfsrnCO_8i6XA--F_AbNDJpXQrQHOFXoD8eAJsVTMBUPXzigw\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button success is-outline hidden\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"border-radius:99px;\">\n\t\t<span>Sign the Cryosphere Call to COP28<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n\n\t<div id=\"gap-363733244\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-363733244 {\n  padding-top: 5px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<p>Despite growing impacts, the Cryosphere remains essentially ignored in UN climate negotiations. In an attempt to address this long-standing disconnect, ICCI and other COP31 academic partners have launched the below open letter to negotiators alongside a COP31 &#8220;Ice Matters&#8221; social media campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to raise awareness of the relevance of cryosphere science, and to plead with global leaders to reflect the lessons of Cryosphere science &#8212; especially as we enter an era of overshoot &#8212; squarely across all aspects of talks at COP31, including its Cover Decision.<\/p>\n<p>It is open for signature by all cryosphere and climate scientists globally, as well as those working on emissions pathways and those in the social sciences with research on adaptation, loss and damage, and health impacts. This includes research and field associates, as well as doctoral students \u2014 because you are the future, and will be dealing with the impacts of climate change in the global cryosphere throughout your lives, as well as your professional careers.<\/p>\n<p>Signers do so in a personal capacity, not representing their university or other institution; but there is the opportunity to check whether you wish an institutional or other affiliation to be shown together with your signature. A full list of all current signatures can be found\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1IfNmGqmfnjeU3xKYpSTHTpLVIkguLdOwkElgBpeqYWE\/edit?usp=sharing\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Please spread this effort within your networks. COP31 ends Nov. 20; we aim to present the numbers signing to the COP31 Co-Presidencies (T\u00fcrkiye and Australia) on an ongoing basis and with daily tallies noted at the Cryosphere Pavilion; so early signature would be most appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the research underlying this call, please see: <a href=\"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/overshoot\/\"><strong>https:\/\/iccinet.org\/overshoot\/<\/strong><\/a> For media inquiries, please contact ICCI Outreach Director Amy Imdieke at <a href=\"mailto:amy@iccinet.org\">amy@iccinet.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_1798677096\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"is-border\"\n\t\tstyle=\"border-color:rgb(235, 235, 235);border-radius:30px;border-width:0px5 0px 0px 0px;\">\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row row-small align-equal align-center\"  id=\"row-199220177\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1191776841\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\" style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);\" >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<p><strong>Ice Matters Declaration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1451 dead. Over 5000 still missing. Damage equivalent to 10% of Nepal\u2019s GDP. One disaster.<\/p>\n<p>This year has already provided too many tragic reminders of the threat that melting ice poses to the world, especially in one that is about to dramatically overshoot its temperature targets.<\/p>\n<p>As scientists who observe, measure and model the melt of the cryosphere &#8212; Earth&#8217;s frozen regions &#8212; as well as the degradation of its polar oceans, the increasing global impacts of cryosphere loss do not surprise us. Many of us have personally experienced clear-day flooding of our homes; long stretches of extreme weather; wildfires, knowing much of their origins lie in accelerating ice loss in faraway polar and mountain regions.<\/p>\n<p>For each additional increment of CO2 in the atmosphere from fossil fuel use, such damage will expand. The cryosphere and our polar oceans are unforgiving in their response to overshoot. Rising seas from melting glaciers and polar ice sheets. Disrupted ocean currents. Destabilized homes, critical infrastructure and mountainsides from thawing permafrost. Disrupted water supply from snowpack and glacier decline. Extinctions and die-off of marine species and birds in key high latitude oceans due to warming and acidification.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these impacts will be near-immediate, others will unfold over decades and centuries. Common to all, however, is that the scale of damage and ultimate adaptation needs will be largely irreversible, and decided by just how much overshoot we allow, as the recent UNEP Overshoot reports make clear &#8212; that on Cryosphere, especially.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in stark contrast to Oceans, the Cryosphere remains essentially ignored in UN climate negotiations under the UNFCCC and its Paris Agreement, despite growing global damage from its loss. The Cryosphere provides one of the strongest examples of why further delay is unacceptable: without immediate transition from fossil fuels, the costs of both adaptation and loss and damage will grow; and feedbacks from permafrost emissions, sea ice loss and polar oceans will raise barriers to effective mitigation.<\/p>\n<p>As scientists in an era of overshoot and increasing attacks on scientific integrity, we plead with global leaders to reflect the lessons of Cryosphere science squarely across all aspects of talks at COP31, including its Cover Decision. For decades now, we have been sounding the alarm: ice matters to the stability of our communities and our planet. It matters more today than ever.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-1191776841 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/oMHeJxfHaVwjypS67\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button primary\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"border-radius:99px;\">\n\t\t<span>Click Here to Sign the Petition: Ice Matters<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1IfNmGqmfnjeU3xKYpSTHTpLVIkguLdOwkElgBpeqYWE\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button primary is-outline\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"border-radius:99px;\">\n\t\t<span>View the Latest List of Signatures<\/span>\n\t<i class=\"icon-expand\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1798677096 {\n  padding-top: 25px;\n  padding-bottom: 25px;\n  min-height: 300px;\n  background-color: rgba(228, 228, 228, 0.372);\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"gap-449476737\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-449476737 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"container section-title-container\" ><h4 class=\"section-title section-title-normal\"><b aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/b><span class=\"section-title-main\" >Original Signatories<\/span><b aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/b><\/h4><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1904984002\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-342554877\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<p><strong>Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette<\/strong><br \/>Former Chair, U.S. Polar Research Board<br \/>Department Head and Distinguished Professor, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Jonathan Bamber<\/strong><br \/>Bristol Glaciology Centre, University of Bristol<br \/>Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University Munich <br \/>IPCC Review Editor AR5, Contributing Author AR6<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Florence Colleoni<\/strong><br \/>National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics<br \/>Co-Chief Officer of the SCAR INSTANT Programme\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Regine Hock<\/strong><br \/>Department of Geoscience, University of Oslo<br \/>Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks<br \/>IPCC Coordinating Lead Author SROCC, Lead Author AR7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Carolina Adler<br \/><\/strong>Executive Director, Mountain Research Initiative<br \/>IPCC Lead Author SROCC and AR6 WGII, Co-Lead AR6 WGII Cross-Chapter Paper Mountains<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Helen Findlay<\/strong><br \/>Senior Scientist, Plymouth Marine Laboratory<br \/>Honorary Professor University of Exeter, UK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Miriam Jackson<\/strong> <br \/>Senior Scientist, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate <br \/>IPCC Lead Author SROCC<br \/>Co-Chair of CliC (WCRP Climate and Cryosphere) Scientific Steering Group<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-536603640\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<p><strong>Dr. Georg Kaser<\/strong><br \/>Retired Professor for Climate and Cryospheric Research, University of Innsbruck<br \/>Vice President for Natural Sciences and Technology of the Austrian Science Fund FWF<br \/>IPCC Lead Author in AR4 and AR5, WGI, Review Editor in AR6 SROCC and WGII<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Twila Moon<\/strong><br \/>National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)<br \/>Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)<br \/>University of Colorado Boulder<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Gustaf Hugelius<br \/><\/strong>Vice Director<br \/>Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University<br \/>IPCC Lead Author in AR7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Chris Stokes<\/strong><br \/>Durham University, UK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. He\u00efdi Sevestre<\/strong><br \/>Deputy Secretary, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)<br \/>Working Group to the Arctic Council<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Martin Siegert<\/strong><br \/>Vice President and Professor of Geoscience<br \/>University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Pema Gyamtsho<\/strong> <br \/>Director General, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Julienne Stroeve<\/strong> <br \/>University of Manitoba, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) <br \/>IPCC Contributing Author<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising the Importance of Cryosphere at COP31 Despite growing impacts, the Cryosphere remains essentially ignored in UN climate negotiations. In an attempt to address this long-standing disconnect, ICCI and other COP31 academic partners have launched the below open letter to negotiators alongside a COP31 &#8220;Ice Matters&#8221; social media campaign. 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