Tibet’s Climate Crisis

Tibet is on the frontline of the climate crisis and the effects of climate change on the land and its people are already evident. Even if the world implements the Paris Agreement, signed at COP21 and which would limit global heating to less than 2°C, Tibet will still be disproportionately affected with a temperature rise of nearly three times the global average. Tibetans in the capital city of Lhasa have already voiced concerns that the heat will become unbearable in the near future,3 while the alarming rise in temperature is due to have catastrophic consequences for over half of the world’s population in Asia, who depend on the ten major rivers originating from the Tibetan plateau.

Tibet’s Climate Crisis

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