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Factsheet – Tibet and climate change

January 1, 2016 ・ International Campaign for TibetFactsheet

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Tibet, the world’s largest and highest plateau, is referred to as the ‘world’s third pole’ because it contains the biggest ice fields outside of the Arctic and Antarctic and is as important to the world climate as the two poles. The Tibetan plateau is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world and the impact of the now melting glaciers will be catastrophic.

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