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TIBET &
COPENHAGEN: Climate scientists have called Tibet the 'world's third pole' because it contains the biggest ice fields
outside of the Arctic and Antarctic. The Tibetan plateau is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world and the impact
of the now melting glaciers is feared to be catastrophic. Parliamentarians from 16 countries wrote to the head of the UN Climate
Change Conference in Copenhagen that was held this month, urging negotiators to take into account the global implications
of climate change in Tibet.
Copenhagen Climate Conference
Tibet Justice Center
Tibet Third Pole Campaign
VOICES FROM THE INSIDE: Tibetans in Tibet have often had to rely on outsiders
to tell their story, but these days, even within tight monitoring and censorship controls, Tibetan blogs have become an important
source of information about what is going on in the minds of Tibetans. Dechen Pemba moved to Beijing in 2006 to learn Chinese,
and to see for herself what life in China was like. During this time she traveled to Tibet several times and got to know a
number of Tibetans living in Beijing before she was eventually deported back to London in July 2008, just before the Beijing
Olympics. She now works for the blog translation site, High Peaks, Pure Earth.
High Peaks, Pure Earth website
THE GOLD THAT FEARS NO FIRE: NEW WRITING FROM TIBET
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