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Celebrating at UNESCO: the first-ever global day for glaciers

April 18, 2025
Four panalists are sat on a stage for the UNESCO day for glaciers. Larissa is second from the left.
This was a ‘pinch me’ moment for Larissa – being a panelist at UNESCO Headquarters for the first-ever global day for glaciers, part of ‘2025: year of glaciers’ preservation’. [Photo credits: Christoph von Rüdiger]

2025 marks an important year for glaciers, as it’s the official Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, an initiative by UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Part of the initiative is also the official declaration of March 21st as the World Day for Glaciers. UNESCO wants to celebrate this day in the hope that it “urges global action to protect glaciers and their crucial role in sustaini ...[Read More]

Ice-Hot News – You have a “cool” new Policy Point of Contact in the Cryosphere Division!

February 2, 2024
Ice-Hot News – You have a “cool” new Policy Point of Contact in the Cryosphere Division!

At the 2023 EGU General Assembly, our cryosphere division members all voted “YES!” to have a division policy point of contact! If you’re wondering how to engage in science policy at our division level, what a division policy officer does, who was named and what happened next… This blog post should answer a lot of these questions (or I hope)! First off, a little history about how policy officers ca ...[Read More]