UN Environment Programme
What does it take to get the world’s attention on climate change? Lewis Pugh thinks swimming across a supra-glacial lake in East Antarctica might. The pioneer swimmer – and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Patron of the Oceans – embarked on a gutsy 1-kilometre swim across a river, which has formed as a result of melting ice caused by climate change.
He hopes that the act will call attention to what some see as the need to approve a marine protected area in East Antarctica.
