Climate activists gather at Trient glacier, demand 'strong' action to reduce CO2 emissions

Hundreds of climate activists reportedly gared at Switzerland’s Trient glacier on September 6 to call for attention to impact of climate change on Switzerland’s natural landscape. environmentalists urged authorities to take action to reduce Co2 emissions and draw attention to disappearance of ice shelves and glacier in Alps and beyond. According to international media reports, over 200 people gared at foot of Trient Glacier, which is situated along with one of Western Europe’s tallest mountain ranges, Mont Blanc massif.

protest at Trient Glacier comes one day after Swiss parliament began debating new legislation on reducing Co2 emissions. While speaking to Reuters, Myriam Roth, who is co-president of Swiss Association for Protection of Climate, said that in last 30 or 40 years, re are over 500 glaciers that have disappeared or are in process of disappearing. 

She reportedly ded that this kind of mobilisation, which is very public and draws a lot of people from all over, makes urgency visible. Roth said that this reminds people that this is happening w. 

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Activists demand ‘strong political decision’ 

According to reports, Trient Glacier, which is sitting at an altitude of 3,000-3,200 metres, has alrey receded by more than 1,000 metres over last 30 years. Similarly, Switzerland’s Turtmann Glacier, which is in same canton as Trient, also split in two last month, losing 300,000 cubic metres in a dramatic collapse. 

government reportedly said that 90 per cent of 1,500 glaciers remain, including Trient, will go by end of century if thing is done to cut emissions. Ivan Maillard Ardenti, whose aid group Bre for All supported event organised by Switzerland’s environmentalists on Sunday, reportedly said that what climate activists are asking, in name of Climate Alliance, is that strong political decision is taken so that Co2 emissions can be lowered 60 per cent by 2030. 

(Im: @climalliancech/Twitter) 

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