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November 01, 2021 On the proposal of the research world, Glasgow has been named, after the city that hosts the COP26 on climate, the Antarctic glacier at risk of melting. The ninth which, from 1979 to today, has been dedicated to an event or an international document on the climate and is also one of the nine most endangered glaciers among those of West Antarctica. This was announced by the European Space Agency (ESA), whose satellites constantly monitor the nine glaciers, concentrated in the region called Getz. 



The new name was added in the cartography of Antarctica at the request of researchers from the British University of Leeds. The decision came on the basis of data collected by the Sentinel 1 satellites, by the Copernicus program of ESA and the European Commission, and by the CryoSat satellite of ESA. The data indicate that the melting of the nine glaciers in the Getz region has so far caused the release of water that can be contained in 126 million Olympic-sized swimming pools into the sea, causing a sea level rise of 0.9 millimeters.     



The first glacier dedicated to a climate event was Geneva, named after the first international conference organized in 1979; in 1992 it was the turn of the Rio glacier, from the name of the city that gave its name to the United Nations convention for the protection of biodiversity and the fight against desertification; three years later, in 1995, the Berlin glacier became the symbol of the first Conference of the Parties (COP) and in 1997 it was the turn of the Kyoto glacier, dedicated to the Kyoto protocol launched by COP3. Ten years later, in 2007, the Bali glacier highlighted the role of the first report produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).In 2014 the Stockholm glacier was dedicated to the Ipcc report which until then had involved the largest number of researchers and in 2015 it was the turn of the Paris glacier, in honor of the protocol that indicated the goal of limiting global warming below 2 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels. In the same year, the Incheon glacier underlined the first interdisciplinary relationship, the result of three working groups of the IPCC.