The UN has declared 2025-2034 as the decade of cryosphere sciences
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The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on a Decade of Action for Cryosphere Sciences for 2025-2034. The goal is to address glacial melting and changes in the cryosphere through research and monitoring.
The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution declaring 2025-2034 as a decade of action for cryosphere sciences. This was reported by the Xinhua news agency, UNN reports .
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The resolution, entitled "A Decade of Action for Cryosphere Sciences, 2025-2034" and adopted without a vote, was aimed at addressing the challenges posed by glacial melting and changes in the cryosphere by promoting relevant research and monitoring.
Presenting the text of the draft resolution, the representative of France drew attention to the vulnerability of glaciers and poles to climate change and their role in regulating climate, ocean levels and biodiversity conservation.
"This UN Decade will provide the political momentum needed to make this issue a priority on the multilateral agenda," she said, describing the cryosphere, the frozen components of the Earth system, as "an essential resource for the balance of our planet.
Also on Tuesday, the General Assembly adopted a resolution on "Promoting sustainable forest management, including afforestation and reforestation, on degraded lands, including drylands, as an effective solution to environmental challenges.
Sustainable forest management, including afforestation and reforestation, can have economic, social and environmental benefits, inter alia, through a significant contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation, the resolution says, which also emphasizes the importance of strengthening international cooperation as well as public-private partnerships. promote sustainable forest management.
Meanwhile, the General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution titled "Multidimensional Vulnerability Index" without a vote.
While the delegate from Denmark urged all stakeholders to incorporate vulnerability factors into their analysis and actions, saying that gross domestic product and gross national income per capita do not reflect the vulnerabilities faced by small island developing states and other developing countries, the delegate from Colombia said that the index takes into account exogenous factors, hence "its applicability is limited" for his country and its vulnerability would not be reflected in the tool.
International financial institutions should use the index as a complement to other measures of development, he said.
