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The Group of Friends of Mountainous Countries invites all to participate in the virtual side event and discussion on the occasion of International Mountain Day entitled "Role of Transboundary Cooperation in Mountain Biodiversity and Preservation as Important Contribution to Sustainable Development and Struggle Against COVID-19" on 11 December at 11.00 EST.

The Metropolitan Area of Santiago, Chile is celebrating International Mountain Day 2020 by promoting mountain tourism through public-private aliiances. A variety of discounted outdoor acitivities are being offered, including hiking, zip lining, mountain biking, rafting and more. Mayor Felipe Guevara invites residents to enjoy their surrounding mountains.

The Albanian Network for Rural Development, with support from the Albanian Alps Alliance and Albanian Institute for Democracy and Mediation, is conduct presentations of local good practices for touristic guides on 11 and 12 December at Preza Castle, Tirana, Albania. The event will target youth and aims to strengthen new groups and their ability to be drivers of change in local development processes.

The United Nations Development Programme, Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and Italian Embassy in Pakistan will celebrate International Mountain Day by conducting a webinar on mountain biodiversity at 15.00–16.30 Pakistan time on 11 December.

The Colegio Oficial de Geólogos of Spain will host the webinar "Día de las montañas 2020 en el Colegio de Geólogos" (International Mountain Day at the College of Geologists) on 10 December. The event will feature four speakers who are geologists and mountaineers.

The Canadian Mountain Network together with the Reconciling Ways of Knowing: Indigenous Knowledge and Science Forum will host "Why Mountains Matter: Bringing Indigenous Knowledge and Science Together for International Mountain Day", a set of dialogues on the need for a multi-evidence approach to sustaining biological and cultural diversity, in the spirit of International Mountain Day 2020. The event takes place on 11 December at 14.00–17.00 (GMT-5).

The Central Himalayan Institute for Nature and Applied Research in collaboration with the Global Foundation has been running a web dialogue series on environmental and sustainability issues since July 2020. On the occasion of International Mountain Day, the tenth dialogue will focus on the importance, challenges and scope of mountain biodiversity. The virtual event will be held at 11.00 IST on 5 December. 

Mountains are storehouses of global biodiversity. About half of the world’s biodiversity hotspots are concentrated in mountains, and four of those hotspots lie in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. On 10-17 December 2020, ICIMOD will be organizing a week-long event – a “week for mountains” – to celebrate International Mountain Day by organizing various programmes in-house and in its country offices.

Doers is a humanitarian organization working toward resilience and sustainability in the Himalayan region of India. They are planning to conduct a 5-day workshop for youth of the Indian Himalayan region in celebration of International Mountain Day 2020.

The Instituto Humboldt in Colombia will organize a virtual panel on the management of biodiversity in high mountains in observance of International Mountain Day 2020. Panelists will address the main challenges facing high mountain biodiversity and the actions required for its sustainable management.