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Peru Climate Change Effects

Home to more than 85 of the planets 110 climate zones the andes is a living laboratoryfor advances in both climate science and the understanding of its environmental impact on food systems.

Peru climate change effects. Madre de dios peru destruction of the forests can be swift. What makes the glaciers in peru different from glaciers elsewhere is that they are tropical glaciers. In tropical countries like peru health experts are keeping a close eye on climate change.

Regrowth is much much slower. Rising temperatures can change the way diseases behave while collateral effects from the retreat of. According to a study by the united nations food and agriculture organization fao an increase in ocean temperatures means a decrease in plankton a base organism for the food chain of the marine ecosystem inhabiting peruvian coasts.

Peru is home to 71 percent of the worlds tropical glaciers and since 1970 glacial volume has decreased by 40 percent. The most immediately visible problem of climatic change in peru is the melting of glaciers in the andes. Climate change encompasses not only rising average temperatures but also extreme weather events shifting wildlife populations and habitats rising seas and a range of other impacts.

In total peru has nearly 70 of the worlds tropical glaciers. From the summit of huascaran the highest mountain in earths tropics the valleys of the western andes look placid and peacefulcalming even. Another consequence of climate change which directly affects peru is glacial melt.

Glaciers are huge sheets of ice and snow that are so vast they normally dont melt. However the humboldt or peru current is one of the most affected by climate variability and change. Peru and the swiss confederation on tuesday signed a bilateral agreement to reduce their greenhouse gas ghg emissions within the framework of article 6 of the paris agreement and promote the financing of national projects that implement low carbon technologies and practices.

Environment minister kirla echegaray and swiss ambassador to peru markus alexander antonietti. Forests are one of the planets first lines of defense against climate change absorbing as.