<span style="color: #222222;">In Iceland, people will gather today to commemorate the loss of the glacier Okjokull, which was officially declared dead in 2014 at the age of 700.<br />'' <br />'' The glacier was officially declared dead by the Icelandic Meteorological Office when it was no longer thick enough to move. What once was glacier has been reduced to a small patch of ice atop a volcano. <br />'' <br />'' Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir, Environment Minister Gudmundur Ingi Gudbrandsson and former Irish President Mary Robinson will all take part in a commemoration ceremony later in the day.<br />'' <br />'' The people attending the ceremony will walk up the volcano northeast of the capital Reykjavik to lay a plaque which carries a letter to the future. The plaque reads "Okjokull is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as glacier. In the next 200 years all our main glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it."<br />'' <br />'' The plaque is also labelled "415 ppm CO2", referring to the record level of carbon dioxide measured in the atmosphere last May.<br />'' <br />'' Iceland loses about 11 billion tonnes of ice per year, and scientists fear that all of the island country's 400-plus glaciers will be gone by 2200.<br />''<br />''.</span>