🌍 Preserving Our Glaciers: A Global Expert Dialogue — December 18, 2025

[Dr. Soumitra Das]

Dear All.

Glaciers are disappearing at an alarming rate—reshaping landscapes, intensifying water scarcity, and threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions worldwide. As this crisis accelerates, understanding what can be done now to slow glacier melt has never been more urgent.

You are warmly invited to join a special global webinar:

📅 Thursday, December 18, 2025
🕘 6:30 AM PST | 3:30 PM CET | 4:30 PM EET | 8:00 PM IST

👉 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/axyw-XlRT_OKJ9H-_hDHwA 
📩 All registrants will receive the Zoom link after registration.

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About the Webinar 

This session brings together world-leading experts from the Himalayas, Alps, and Arctic to explore practical and emerging interventions that can locally slow glacier melt.  Participants will gain a rare, integrated global perspective on what can be done now to reduce glacier melt where it is most needed, what scientific and technical gaps remain, and how international collaboration can advance effective, responsible glacier-preservation efforts.

Panelists

Renowned experts in the field from the United States, Finland, and Switzerland:

• Dr. Leslie Field, Founder & CEO Bright Ice Initiative (USA)
  

• Dr. John Moore, Research Professor at Arctic Centre, University of Lapland (Finland)

• Dr. Mathias Huss, Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

Moderator: Dr. Farooq Azam, Senior Cryosphere Specialist, ICIMOD & Associate Professor, IIT Indore (India)

We hope you will join us for this important dialogue

Warmly,

Soumitra

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Soumitra Das

Chairman and Executive Director, HCI USA

Chairman, HCI India

https://healthyclimateinitiative.org/