# @unfoundation on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BbuoewrD5cy
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/6344425-unfoundation-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/aa17003751.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-11-20T19:22:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** United Nations Foundation (@unfoundation) — https://gondola.cc/unfoundation

## Caption

Documentary photographer @estherhorvath shared this photo for our ongoing #EyeOnClimate series—a campaign dedicated to raising awareness of climate change impacts and solutions around the @UnitedNations’ Annual Meeting on Climate Change, #COP23.
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“I feel a strong connection to the Arctic and a responsibility to document the effects of climate change on our most fragile environment. Arctic ice regulates global climate, including the distribution of heat, and patterns of rainfall or snowfall. Extreme weather events, such as flooding, fires, storm surges, heat waves may be amplified by the loss of Arctic summer sea ice.
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The Greenland ice sheet is up to 3 km thick and would raise sea levels by seven meters if it all melted into the ocean. Climate scientists suggest that there is a possibility of a sea level rise of one or two meters through the end of the century. If average temperature increases 2°C by 2100, 130 million people would be affected by the rising sea levels. With a 4°C warming, between 470 million and 760 million people living in coastal areas would be impacted.
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I took these photos from a melting fjord in northern Greenland while flying over in a Polar 6 Research aircraft for Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.”
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How is your #EyeOnClimate?
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Share your climate change story with us, using the hashtag #EyeOnClimate.

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