“Only five out of 200 potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region are monitored. When they burst there is a huge flash flood and hundreds of people die." - Izabella Koziell

• Press conference: Urgent Ambition Essential for Vulnerable Mountains, Downstream and Low-lying Regions: United Nations Secretary-General Special Address and the 1.5°C Limit
• When: Today, Thursday 6^th June, 1430-1500 CEST
• Where: Room Nairobi 4, World Conference Center, Bonn Climate Change Conference, Bonn, Germany
• HKH local time:

Beijing: 20:30
Delhi 18:00
Dhaka: 18:30
Islamabad: 17:30
Kabul: 17:00
Kathmandu: 18:15
Nay Pyi Taw: 19:00
Thimphu: 18:30

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Scientific experts and representatives from countries in mountain, downstream and low-lying regions will hold a press conference today following United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s Special Address yesterday.

Speaking at the Bonn Climate Change Conference, international experts will describe the effects of what Guterres called “the climate road to hell” for people living in mountain and low-lying regions.

These countries are on the frontline of the climate crisis and are already suffering severe impacts even before 1.5°C of warming. The participants will explain why 1.5°C is an essential limit, not merely “ambitious”, and how each fraction of a degree counts with growing and irreversible damage from snow and ice regions ongoing today.

Speakers:

• Fabien Maussion, Associate Professor in Polar Environmental Change, University of Bristol
• James Kirkham, Chief Science Advisor and Coordinator, Ambition on Melting Ice (AMI)
• Eduardo Silva, Lead Negotiator, Chile, and Co-Chair AMI
• Izabella Koziell, Deputy Director General, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
• Ambassador Carlos Fuller, Belize
• Pam Pearson, Director and Founder, International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI), Moderator

All participants will be available for interview after the press conference in Bonn or virtually.

Media contacts:

• Irene Quaile, ICCI: @iccinet.org, +49 177 8412930
• Amy Imdieke, ICCI: amy@iccinet.org | +1 507 321 3255
• Annie Dare, ICIMOD: Dare@icimod.org | +44 7791 110 089
• James Whiteman, Blakeney: icimod@theblakeneygroup.com, +44 557 106 201

Notes:

• International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI)
• Ambition on Melting Ice (AMI)
• International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

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