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Acknowledgements

The Steering Committee would like to thank the World Glacier Monitoring Service for their warm hospitality in host- ing the Steering Committee meeting in Zurich. Thanks to Wilfried Haeberli, Demian Schneider and Perscheng Assef.

Photos and Graphics

Special thanks to Vladimir Ryabinin, World Meteorological Organization, for final reviews of chapters.

Front cover photos: Boy fishing, Victoria Island, Canada, TopFoto/ImageWorks Aletsch glacier, Switzerland, iStock/ Josef F. Stuefer Mt. Kilimanjaro, Corbis Shanti Stupa, Ladakh, iStock/Falk Kienas Back cover photo: Christopher Uglow/UNEP/Still Pictures

Chapter author acknowledgements: The authors of Chapter 6B Glaciers and Ice Caps are indebted to all the institutes, organizations and individual research- ers that have been providing their data to and make it readily available through the World Glacier Monitoring Service. They gratefully acknowledge the thoughtful comments on a first version of the chapter of P.G. Knight, M. Kuhn, B. Francou and of the Steering Committee. The writing of this chapter was mainly funded by the Department of Geography, Univer- sity of Zurich, Switzerland. Chapter 6C Ice and Sea Level Change is a contribution to the CSIRO Climate Change Research Program and the CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship and was supported by the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Programme through the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre.

Chapter title page photos: NASA Visible Earth

All maps and graphics by Hugo Ahlenius except where noted.

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