With current policy leading to a warming of 2.7°C, we are sadly saying goodbye to many glaciers in the Alps. However, every tenth of a degree reduced in warming can help preserve glacier ice worldwide and mitigate the impacts of climate change!

Below, you can select a listed glacier to see what its future might look like.

List by Country

Austria

• Pasterze, mostly gone by 2063
• Seekarlesferner, mostly gone by 2033
• Gaisbergferner, mostly gone by 2039
• Hintereisferner, mostly gone by 2048

France

• Glacier d'Argentière, mostly gone by 2065
• Glacier de la Grande Motte, mostly gone by 2057
• Gebroulaz, mostly gone by 2062
• Glacier de Saint-Sorlin, mostly gone by 2028
• Glacier Blanc, mostly gone by 2061

Italy

• Ghiacciaio di Malavalle, mostly gone by 2052
• Ghiacciaio della Vallelunga, mostly gone by 2059
• Ghiacciaio del Careser, mostly gone by 2042
• Ghiacciaio della Mare, mostly gone by 2051
• Marmolada, mostly gone by 2034

Switzerland

• Clariden, mostly gone by 2051
• Rhone, mostly gone by 2073
• Oberaargletscher, mostly gone by 2053
• Kanderfirn, mostly gone by 2053
• Brunegggletscher, mostly gone by 2073

Statistics for the Alps

Of the approximately 3,900 glaciers in the Alps in Central Europe, only around 635 have an estimated volume above 0.01 km³ as of 2020, equivalent to water stored in 4,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

We define 'mostly gone' as the year when either less than 10% of the glacier's 2020 volume or less than 0.01 km³ is expected to be left - whichever threshold is crossed first. Past either of these thresholds, the glacier will no longer be perceived as the glacier it once was.

Under 2.7°C warming, more than 577 (91%) glaciers in the Alps are estimated to be mostly gone before 2100.
Under 1.5°C warming, 103 of these 577 glaciers are expected to survive.