Remarks by Masatsugu Asakawa, President, Asian Development Bank, at the High-Level Event on Climate Change, Glaciers, and Regional Cooperation, COP29, 14 November 2024 ...
Rising temperatures have caused glaciers in the Caucasus to retreat an average of 600m over the past century, contributing to a loss of more than 11 billion tons of freshwater. Heatwaves and natural ...