HCI Webinar - "Third Pole Melting: Impacts and Implications" on July 11

[Dr. Soumitra Das]

Dear  All, 

You are cordially invited to join the webinar on Third Pole Melting: Impacts and Implications organized by the Healthy Climate Initiative, The Climate Reality Project India, and Indigenous People's Climate Justice Forum.  The webinar will start at 11:00 AM Eastern Time (3:00 PM GMT, 8:30 PM IST) for the duration of 1.5 hours on July 11, 2021.  To join the event, please register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H4z1J1XYRr2HIfdMD2YtwA. After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the webinar.

Abstract

The UN recently reported that the life and livelihood of 2 billion are at stake due to the accelerated melting of the Third Pole. The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), an intergovernmental learning and knowledge center comprising eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayas, reported the same in 2019.  We are organizing this interactive webinar to communicate the realities and urgency of slowing the melt of the Himalayan glaciers. 

Speakers

• Dr. Santosh Nepal, Group Lead, Climate, and Hydrology at ICIMOD

• Dr. Fawzia Tarannum, Assistant Professor, TERI School of Advanced Studies

• Mr. Joydeep Gupta, South Asia Director of The Third Pole and India coordinator of Internews Earth Journalism Network

• Dr. Ram Boojh, CEO at Mobius Foundation

• Dr. Leslie Field, Founder, and CTO, Arctic Ice Project.

  Moderator

• Rituraj Phukan, National Coordinator of The Climate Reality Project India, and COO, Walk For Water.

Agenda

• Opening remarks: Dr. Soumitra Das, Founder, and President, Healthy Climate Initiative (5 minutes)

• The Changing Himalayas: Climate change and its implications on water resources in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region (https://lib.icimod.org/record/34383).  Dr. Santosh Nepal (7 minutes) 

• “Water Our Worries?: India’s water crisis, current and projected challenges from glacial loss in the Himalayas, policy interventions, and community action. Dr. Fawzia Tarannum (7 minutes)

• “Community Climate Impact Stories”: Stories of how the melting of Himalayan glaciers is affecting the people in the region and how they are coping with it.  Mr. Joydeep Gupta (7 minutes)

• “A Pathway to Sustainable Himalayan Collaboration”: The possibilities of finding common grounds for resolving issues related to shared resources between the countries of the Himalayan region.   Dr. Ram Boojh (7 minutes)

• “A Potential Solution to Restore the Third Pole”: A brief overview of AIP’s solution to restore the Arctic and the joint initiative to stop/slow down the melting of the Third Pole with HCI and The Climate Reality Project India.  Dr. Leslie Field (7 minutes).

• Moderated Questions: Mr. Rituraj Phukan (18 minutes)

• Audience Q/A (30 minutes)

• Vote of thanks (2 minutes)

Your presence and support are critical to the success of the initiative to restore Himalayan glaciers.

Sincerely,

Soumitra Das

President, Healthy Climate Initiative

[Renaud de RICHTER]

Future snowmelt from Third Pole may decrease drastically

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-future-snowmelt-pole-decrease-drastically.html

The study was published in Nature Climate Change on June 24. Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink et al, Climate change decisive for Asia's snow meltwater supply, Nature Climate Change (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01074-x

"... in more realistic scenarios, snowmelt will be reduced by 22% and for specific regions by even more than 50%. Such reductions in meltwater input into the rivers during spring can strongly affect people downstream that depend on that water for irrigation and hydropower."

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[Dr. Soumitra Das]

Thank you for the article.  We hope that happens - the life and livelihood of billions of people depend on it.  Here is the forecast, quoted from the article: "The scientists predicted that there will be considerable losses in the amount of snowmelt in Asia's rivers, but the degree of future climate change plays a key role. "If we are able to limit temperature rise by the end of the century to 1.5 degrees when compared to pre-industrial levels, as agreed upon in the 2015 Paris agreement, we will see region-wide reductions in snowmelt of only 6%," said co-author Walter Immerzeel, Professor in Mountain Hydrology at Utrecht University. "However, in more realistic scenarios, snowmelt will be reduced by 22% and for specific regions by even more than 50%. Such reductions in meltwater input into the rivers during spring can strongly affect people downstream that depend on that water for irrigation and hydropower."

Here is a recent report (published last month) from the UNDP on the third pole melting: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/soumitradas_un-report-2b-lives-are-stake-due-to-climate-activity-6809904510916427776-czaI which says: 

"A catastrophic loss of water security affecting 2 billion people from the amplifier global surface heating"

[Dr. Soumitra Das]

Dear  All, 

The HCI webinar on Third Pole Melting: Impacts and Implications organized by the Healthy Climate Initiative, The Climate Reality Project India, and Indigenous People's Climate Justice Forum is at 1:00 AM US ET (3:00 PM GMT, 8:30 PM IST) TOMORROW. In case you have not yet registered, you can do it at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H4z1J1XYRr2HIfdMD2YtwA . After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the webinar. It is free.

Look forward to seeing you at the webinar!

Best,

Sincerely,

Soumitra Das, President, Healthy Climate Initiative

[Dr. Soumitra Das]

Dear All,

Thank you for your participation in the webinar yesterday.   I am sending the link for the video recording of the webinar for those who could not join the webinar - https://www.facebook.com/104466384461665/videos/842154213343984.  You will find it informative and educational.  

Thank you,

Soumitra