Hundreds of millions of people will be affected by melting glaciers and reduced snow-covered as a result of climate change, the Programmed has warned the UN Environment Programmed (UNEP) in a new report.

“Only the loss of snow and glaciers in the mountains of Asia would affect approximately 40% of world population,” says the report “Global Outlook for Snow and Ice ‘, presented at Nairobi, UNEP headquarters.

But other areas like the Pyrenees, the Alps or the Andes, will also be severely damaged by the impact, it added, which analyzes current trends and possible future development of ecosystems of ice and snow as glaciers, rivers and lakes ice cream.

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