This study provides a reconciled estimate of glacier contributions to sea level rise from 2003 to 2009, addressing discrepancies in previous estimates. The authors use multiple satellite data (GRACE and ICESat) and in-situ observations to standardize and create new mass-budget estimates. They find that glaciers outside the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are losing mass, with the largest losses occurring in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes, and High Mountain Asia. The global mass budget for all glaciers outside these ice sheets is -259 ± 28 Gt yr⁻¹, equivalent to 29 ± 13% of the observed sea-level rise during this period. The study highlights a significant bias in glaciological records, which tend to underestimate mass loss in large glacierized regions. The consensus estimate suggests that previous global assessments may have overestimated glacier mass loss due to the interpolation of sparse and potentially biased glaciological measurements.This study provides a reconciled estimate of glacier contributions to sea level rise from 2003 to 2009, addressing discrepancies in previous estimates. The authors use multiple satellite data (GRACE and ICESat) and in-situ observations to standardize and create new mass-budget estimates. They find that glaciers outside the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are losing mass, with the largest losses occurring in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes, and High Mountain Asia. The global mass budget for all glaciers outside these ice sheets is -259 ± 28 Gt yr⁻¹, equivalent to 29 ± 13% of the observed sea-level rise during this period. The study highlights a significant bias in glaciological records, which tend to underestimate mass loss in large glacierized regions. The consensus estimate suggests that previous global assessments may have overestimated glacier mass loss due to the interpolation of sparse and potentially biased glaciological measurements.