The report, published on August 8, widely covers a range of topics: climate change; desertification; land degradation; sustainable land management; food security; and greenhouse gas fluxes in land-based ecosystems.\u00a0 \u00a0Experts see Tibet as a climate change epicenter: the Tibetan plateau, as the largest reservoir of the freshwater outside of the North and South Poles, as well as the source of the eight largest river systems in the world, is dubbed the earth\u2019s Third Pole. The plateau is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, which causes the melting of the glaciers and permafrost. Since the glacial sources of Asia\u2019s great rivers are melting fast, rivers and lakes are rising and overflowing, speeding up the soil erosion process, thereby causing floods, landslides and major damage to land and people as well as an increase in bare ground cover. Moreover, the accelerated melting of the glaciers and permafrost contribute to global warming and more extreme weather conditions such as snowstorms and heavy rain inside of Tibet. The extreme weather phenomena are causing large scale loss of livestock and endangering wild animals such as blue sheep; white-lipped deer; Tibetan gazelles; wild yaks and various species of birds. The report concludes that extreme weather conditions are projected to grow in intensity and frequency.<\/p>\n
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