{"id":11994,"date":"2015-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/new-report-reveals-global-significance-of-tibet-earths-third-pole-and-challenges-chinas-policies\/"},"modified":"2015-12-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T23:00:00","slug":"new-report-reveals-global-significance-of-tibet-earths-third-pole-and-challenges-chinas-policies","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/new-report-reveals-global-significance-of-tibet-earths-third-pole-and-challenges-chinas-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"New ICT report reveals global significance of Tibet, earth\u2019s Third Pole, and challenges China\u2019s policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As the world\u2019s leaders meet in Paris this week for critical climate change talks, new findings by the International Campaign for Tibet reveal that Tibet\u2019s fragile environment, which is warming faster than anywhere else, is of critical global importance. But almost unnoticed by the rest of the world, China\u2019s policies are re-shaping the landscape of the earth\u2019s highest and largest plateau with devastating consequences.<\/p>\nICT\u2019s new report, \u2018Blue gold from the highest plateau: Tibet\u2019s water and global climate change\u2019<\/a>, was published in Paris on December 8 (2015).\n\nMatteo Mecacci, President of the International Campaign for Tibet, said: \u201cAs talks began in Paris, both the Dalai Lama and the Beijing leadership have expressed alarm about the scale of the environmental crisis in Tibet, the \u2018Roof of the World\u2019. Known as the earth\u2019s \u2018Third Pole\u2019, because it contains the biggest reserves of freshwater outside the Arctic and Antarctic, Tibet\u2019s changing climate not only affects the monsoon in Asia, but also weather in Europe. As the source of most of Asia\u2019s major rivers, including the Yangtze, the Mekong and the Brahmaputra, Tibet\u2019s fragile ecology is of critical importance to hundreds of millions of people in the water-dependent societies downstream.\n\n\u201cICT\u2019s new report reveals why Tibet matters to all of us, although few people know of its significance, and provides a roadmap for a way forward for the urgent task of conserving the plateau and its \u2018blue gold\u2019 that is in the interests of China and the rest of the world as well as the Tibetan people.\u201d\n\n\u2018Blue Gold from the Highest Plateau\u2019 documents:\n