United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) executive director Achim Steiner has called for adaptation strategies ranging from urban planning to improved water storage to be developed urgently in the face of intensified rainfall and glacier shrinkage, which the organisation warns ‘threaten the food security and livelihoods of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people’.
Some glaciers put on a little bit, but most are loosing icemass at alarming rates. the "Water towers" of the East are increasingly under pressure, threathening the lives of billions of people.
