As part of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation 2025, a joint celebration of the World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day was organized on the 21st of March 2025 in New York to highlight the interconnected challenges of water availability and climate change. This combined event served as a platform for dialogue and action regarding the state of the world’s glaciers and the impacts of the melting cryosphere on global water availability, food, and energy security.

You can watch the event here.

The event brought together leaders, policymakers, scientists, and civil society to address glacier preservation and water availability. The event aimed to raise awareness of glaciers’ role in the climate system and water cycle while sharing best practices for mitigating and adapting to their accelerated melting. High-level sessions with government officials and UN leaders well held tooutline strategies for glacier protection.

The event was co-sponsored by Barbados, Canada, Peru, Senegal, Singapore, Tajikistan, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates as well as UNESCO, WMO, UNDESA, UNDP, UNDRR, UN-Water, IAEA, IUCN and UNU-INWEH.

Key messages for World Water Day 2025

• Glaciers are melting faster than ever. As the planet gets hotter due to climate change, our frozen world is shrinking, making the water cycle more unpredictable and extreme.
• Glacial retreat threatens devastation. For billions of people, meltwater flows are changing, causing floods, droughts, landslides and sea level rise, and damaging ecosystems.
• Glacier preservation is a survival strategy. We must work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage meltwater more sustainably for people and the planet.

The 2025 global campaign resources are available on the UN-Water website here.

• ACTIVATION KIT in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
• CAMPAIGN ANIMATION.
• CAMPAIGN TRELLO with social media resources in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
• CERTIFICATE.
• FACTSHEET in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. 
• INFOGRAPHIC. 
• POSTER in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.  
• VISUAL IDENTIFIER in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.