{"id":39736,"date":"2025-03-24T19:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=39736"},"modified":"2025-03-24T19:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:45:24","slug":"un-world-water-development-report-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/24-03-2025\/un-world-water-development-report-2025","title":{"rendered":"UN World Water Development Report 2025 \u2013 Mountains and Glaciers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 3\/Environment, Conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025 \u2013 Mountains and Glaciers: Water Towers was released by UNESCO.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key points of the report<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Glaciers are melting faster than ever, with a significant loss of mass in the last few years.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Since 1975, glaciers have lost over 9,000 billion tonnes of mass, equivalent to an ice block the size of Germany.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Impurities such as black carbon from wildfires and dust storms are accelerating the melting by increasing the absorption of solar radiation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Permafrost Thawing: <\/strong>Rising temperatures are causing permafrost to melt, releasing organic carbon into the atmosphere and exacerbating climate change.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The thaw also destabilizes slopes, increasing the risk of landslides and other hazards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Decline in Snow Cover: <\/strong>Snow cover has decreased in mountain regions, especially in spring and summer, with further declines expected.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A global mean decline of 7.79% in snow cover between 1979 and 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Impacts and Concerns<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The impacts of glacier melting and permafrost thaw include erratic water flow, increased risk of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), and rising sea levels.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GLOFs have caused over 12,000 deaths in the past 200 years.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The melting of glaciers contributes to 25-30% of global sea level rise, posing risks to millions of people.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Suggestions and Way Forward\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mountains cover 33 million sq km and are vital for sustaining life, with around 2 billion people relying on mountain glaciers for freshwater.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Therefore awareness and policy changes are needed to address the impact of rising temperatures on mountain ecosystems and downstream communities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mobilization of resources and creation of effective policy frameworks are critical for mitigating these environmental impacts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source :TH<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025 \u2013 Mountains and Glaciers: Water Towers was released by UNESCO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39737,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39736\/revisions\/39737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}