Climate change will cause major readjustments in the Earth surface systems and the most dramatic of these changes are expected to occur in the cold climate environments. Cold climate landscapes are some of the last wilderness areas containing specialized and diverse plants and animals as well as large stores of soil carbon. Geomorphological processes, operating at the Earth's surface, transferring sediments and changing landforms, are controlled by climate, vegetation cover and human impacts which will be significantly affected by climate change. In this context it is a major challenge to develop a better understanding of these complexsystems and the mechanisms and climatic controls of sedimentary transfer processes in cold environments.