In Depth - Melting of Himalayan Glaciers

At the Paris climate conference in December 2015, 195 countries adopted  the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal. The  agreement set out a global action plan to put the world on track to  avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below  2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C.   By the end of the century, the Hindu Kush Himalayas will warm by around  1.8  degrees Celsius.   According to the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment report, even the most  ambitious goal set by the Paris Agreement to limit global warming would  lead to a 2.1 spike in temperature in the Hindu Kush Region, leading to  melting of one-third of the region’s glaciers, potentially destabilizing  Asia’s rivers.   Today's IN DEPTH analyses the changes affecting one of the greatest  mountain systems in the world, how increasing temperatures are impacting  our environment and the steps being undertaken at the global level to  prevent further damage to our planet...  

Anchor - Teena Jha