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AT RISK ARCTIC, ICE ALREADY LOST 'BY GREENPEACE



in today the annual minimum ice coverage of the Arctic . The year 2009 ranks third - after 2007 and 2008 - among the worst years for the loss of the surface of the Arctic ice cap (1). Another warning signal to world leaders at the Copenhagen summit will reach an agreement to avoid catastrophic climate change.

The Greenpeace icebreaker, the Arctic Sunrise, is continuing his expedition in the Arctic and is now located off the northeast coast of Greenland , in front of the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. On board was added Peter Wadhams, an expert of world renown that will use the Arctic Sunrise as a platform for their research on the state of reduced Arctic Ocean ice.


"We are entering a new era of melting ice in the Arctic Ocean due to global warming," explains Dr. . Peter W adhams. "Within twenty years the Arctic will reach the end of the summer completely free of ice covering the sea. We can no longer rely on predictive models used to date who have overestimated the real conditions since the '80s. "

Peter Wadhams, of Cambridge University, is leading a group of independent scientists who are studying the different types of melting rate of ice, to explain how why some areas of the Arctic are disappearing faster than we expected.

"The extension of the Arctic Ocean ice decreases for over thirty years, but in the last decade we have witnessed a worrying phenomenon of acceleration," recalls Francis German, head of Greenpeace's Climate Campaign. "In the summer of 2007 it reached a record low, about 4.3 million square kilometers, a value that was scheduled for 2080."



"It is the third minimum of three years: yet another cry of alarm about the state of the planet," says Melanie Duchin, expedition leader aboard the Arctic Sunrise. "World leaders must be aware of the dangers and efforts to reach an agreement in Copenhagen courageous, ambitious and effective."

Greenpeace calls for industrialized countries to commit themselves to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2020 , compared to 1990, and to provide financial resources to developing countries at least 110 billion € per year until 2020, so as to help reduce the growth of their emissions by 15-30% in 2020.