the government launches a plan to protect glaciers and protect themselves from them – Libération

Traveling to Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (Haute-Savoie) this Thursday, November 21, the Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, announced measures to better map the risks linked to the melting of glaciers and permafrost.

Coincidentally, the snowy weather was there this Thursday, November 21, for the presentation of a plan aimed at both protecting glaciers and their ecosystems and protecting populations against the hazards linked to their melting. These measures, detailed during a trip to Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (Haute-Savoie) by the Minister of Ecological Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher, are part of the National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change (PNACC) presented in October by the Prime Minister and which aims to prepare the country for the consequences of a 4°C rise in temperatures by the end of the century.

Increased risks

The Alps and Pyrenees are particularly vulnerable to warming, with temperatures already increasing by 2°C in the 20th century, compared to +1.4°C in the rest of France. French glaciers have lost 25% of their surface area in half a century and, at this rate, scientists consider that