Bangkok--5 Jun--UN
To commemorate World Environment Day and it’s theme — ‘Melting Ice — A Hot Topic’, UNEP is launching the Global Outlook for Ice and Snow, during UNESCAP’s 3rd Green Growth Policy Dialogue, at Bitec, Bangkok, 5-7 June 2007. More than 150 representatives from government and business are expected to attend.
The Global Outlook for Ice and Snow builds on, and in some areas extends the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) whose fourth assessment reports were issued between February and May this year.
The launch will look at findings of the report, namely why ice and snow are important to us, how ice and snow are changing as a result of global warming and how these impacts on communities around the globe, including Asia. The focus of the launch in Bangkok is the impact of melting ice and snow on Asia Pacific communities and economies.
The report also flags up areas in need of further scientific clarity. These include the likely fate of the Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets where 98 to 99 per cent of the world’s freshwater ice on the Earth’s surface is held.
This comprehensive report on melting ice and snow was produced by UNEP with contributions from 70 experts around the globe. Copies of the report and CD Roms will be distributed during the event, which will also feature a number
of film presentations on the report.
The report will be launched during UNESCAP’s 3rd Green Growth Policy Dialogue. During the policy dialogue policy makers, businesses, and consumer groups from all over Asia and the Pacific will be part of the mix of over 300 exhibitors and tens of thousands of trade fair visitors in a unique opportunity on making business “greener” in the face of climate change.
For further information, please contact:
Ms. Satwant Kaur, Regional Information Officer
United Nations Environment Programme Regional Office for Asia and the
Pacific,
Tel: 66 02 288 2127
Mobile: 083 9086000
E-mail: [email protected]
ESCAP CONTACT:
Mr. Simon Hoiberg Olsen, Information Assistant
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Tel: 66 02 288 1247
Mobile: 089 5143215
E-mail: [email protected]