Jorge Daniel Taillant es fundador de CEDHA y dirige su trabajo en glaciares y minería

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The Center for Human Rights and Environment, following a decade of work to promote glacier protection, publishes a definition of “Cryoactivism”, the emerging arena of what glaciologist Bernard Francou recently dubbed “cryoactivism,” that is, environmental advocacy steered toward protecting the complex dimensions of the planet’s frozen environments, including glaciers and subsurface ice of the periglacial environment (such as permafrost), as they melt away amid the rapid acceleration of global warming.

 The article was published by LASA FORUM