Organizations Filed Purposes:
ICCI serves as a network between scientists, policymakers, and people affected by climate changes in the cryosphere, such as the Arctic, Andes, and Himalayas.
Reducing Agricultural Sector Field Burning in the Eastern Himalayas and Andes: This three-year project, focusing on these two mountain regions where glaciers impacted by black carbon provide important water resources, includes no-burn demonstration projects in Peru (Huancayo) and India (Punjab). The project also includes satellite monitoring of fires in conjunction with researchers, including from NASA and NOAA. No-burn alternatives especially include conservation agriculture, which helps farmers increase yield and weather extreme events more economically; as well as no-burn straw use such as biogas or pellets for cookstoves. Demonstration sites in both regions are now being asked for help by nearby communities eager to adopt these methods, with help from regional advisory groups also created under the project. In cooperation with WHO and FAO, work to raise greater awareness on the global scale, of the need to address this practice for food security, health and climate reasons has also begun; looping in previous work to address the issue in the European context, such as the Baltics and Ukraine. The project concluded at the end of 2019.
Cryosphere 2020: As part of this ongoing process aimed at the next round of pledges under the Paris Agreement, ICCI is conducting Chatham House rules meetings of negotiators and top cryosphere scientists, many of them IPCC authors on the 1.5 Degree Report and Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere. Discussions focus on how the latest science might be more effectively appreciated, and acted upon, by top political levels. Based on those discussions, ICCI is also seeking other means to communicate the need for urgent, as well as ambitious targets; for example through special reports, personal briefings by scientists, and latest research summaries on ICCIs web page; in light of essentially irreversible cryosphere thresholds and the increasingly-clear need to keep warming below 1.5 degrees. In 2019, ICCI also coordinated a Cryosphere Pavilion at COP-25 in Madrid, working with several governments and academic institutions
Black Carbon from Domestic Heating: ICCI continued follow-up work to the 2016-28 CCAC Domestic Heating project with work under the LRTAP Convention including guidance on best practices and technologies. The cooperative consumer information project, Burn Right Vermont is supported by the Vermont Community Foundation and will continue to 2020.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Pamela Pearson | President | 60 | $32,554 |
| Luisa Molina | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Lars-Otto Reiersen | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
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