Targeting climate change in Himalayas
By Chen Jia | China Daily | Updated: 2008-10-10 07:40
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A boy looks out to the Hopar glacier in the central Hunza region, Pakistan, in July last year. Research has shown that the Himalayan glaciers may disappear in 40 to 50 years because of climate change. Getty Images |
The Ministry of Science and Technology and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) jointly launched a three-year program yesterday to address the increasingly worrying effects of climate change in the Himalayas.
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