The Melting Glaciers Project is a new collaboration between the IUCN-WCPA Mountains Biome and the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA), which represents several million climbers and mountaineers from over 90 member organisations in 62 countries around the world.
As an innovative global mountain stewardship project, its objectives are to engage climbers on mountaineering expeditions from the UIAA member organizations as "citizen scientists" to help the Mountains Biome network of scientists, academics, and researchers assess, document, and communicate images and information about:
- Selected glaciers around the world that are being directly affected by climate change, and also
- The potentially catastrophic impacts that climate changes and melting glaciers can have on the protected areas, societies and ecosystems that depend on their water, in order to
- Help mountain stakeholders (who might live nearby or in distant metro areas), land managers, governments, and other decision-makers respond more quickly and effectively to these impacts and threats