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A report by the International Campaign for Tibet

BLUE GOLD FROM THE HIGHEST PLATEAU:

Tibet’s water and

global climate change

BLUE GOLD FROM THE HIGHEST PLATEAU:

Tibet’s water and global climate change

Contents

Executive Summary

Part One: The Tibetan landscape and Chinese Policy

Why Tibet’s environment matters

The warming of the plateau and glacial melt

China’s land use policies and their impact

Disappearing permafrost

Part Two: ‘An internal affair’: Beijing’s policies on Tibet’s environment

Tibet’s water as strategic asset

Tibet’s influence on global climate

Part Three: Tibet’s water and Chinese policies

‘The greatest water grab in history’: damming Tibet

Mammoth water diversion plan threatens Tibet’s ecosystem

The rush to exploit Tibet’s water: bottling the glaciers

The great water-meadow of Dzoege and climate change: Gabriel Lafitte

Part Four: The ‘contradiction between grass and animals’: nomadic pastoralists and

official policy

China’s counter-productive policies and an alternative proposal: Tsering Tsomo

Harsh winter, bleak outlook: a Tibetan nomad

Part Five: The impact of mining on Tibet’s water and environment

A poem to Amnye Machen

Recommendations for protection of Tibet ‘the Third Pole’ at the Paris climate change

conference and beyond

Cover: The cartoon has been realized by Fifi, alias Philippe Sadzot, who lives and works in Liège. He is a teacher

at ESA Saint-Luc (Art School). Several of his stories have been published by the editors Requins Marteaux, Six

Pieds sous Terre and Coiffeurs pour Dames (www.coiffeurspourdames.com).

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