Events

COFO side event on Mapping Mountains Vulnerability

From: 23.06.2014 to: 23.06.2014

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat is organizing a side event during the 22nd Session of the Committee on Forestry (COFO) on Mapping Mountain Vulnerability.  The event will present the preliminary findings of the update of  a 2002 FAO working paper, “Towards a GIS-based analysis of mountain environments and populations,” compiled for the International Year of Mountains.  The study, carried out in collaboration with the Geoinformatics team of the Centre for Development and Environment of the University of Bern and FAO’s Statistics Division, will provide baseline information about changes in mountain areas to identify the main trends over the past decade as well as help outline some future ones. The side event will be an occasion to share important information that is lacking and that would allow the mountain community –including FAO mountain member states - to present current stats, key figures, definitions and advocate for sustainable mountain development. This data could also be used as indicators for the monitoring framework of the Post-2015 mountain-related sustainable development targets.

The event will be held at the Food and Agriculture Organization Headquarters on 23 June from 13.15 to 14.45.

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