Tajikistan's president calls for global effort to preserve glaciers as melting accelerates

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Tajikistan's president calls for global effort to preserve glaciers as melting accelerates  Tajikistan, home to the majority of Central Asia's glaciers, is urging global action as climate change accelerates glacier melt. At a high-level international conference in Dushanbe, President Emomali Rahmon proposed launching a major glacier study.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/05/30/tajikistans-president-calls-for-global-effort-to-preserve-glaciers-as-melting-accelerates  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:01Tajikistan is home to nearly 14,000 glaciers, but more than a thousand have already disappeared.

00:07The country has the largest number of glaciers in Central Asia and sits at the epicenter of regional glacier melt.

00:13As the impact grows, Tajikistan is leading the call for action and bringing the issue to the global stage.

00:20On the sidelines of the first high-level international conference on glaciers preservation in Dushanbe,

00:25President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon proposed launching a major study of the country's glaciers and creating a regional research lab.

00:33He also suggested focusing research efforts on the Vanchiyakh Glacier, formerly known as Fechenko.

00:39It is the world's largest continental glacier and has already retreated by more than one kilometer over the past 80 years.

00:47If you look at the point of the 60% of the population of Tajikistan,

00:57The high-level international conference on glaciers preservation has gathered over 2,000

01:23people from more than 80 countries.

01:25Among the high-profile guests were UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohamed, Iran's first

01:30Vice President Mohammad Reza Arif, Pakistan's Prime Minister Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif, and

01:35other international leaders.

01:37The event marks an important step toward putting the UN's 2025 International Year of Glacier

01:43Preservation into action.

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