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Method for climate adaptation in the mountains

27.05.2016

Active Remedy Ltd submitted a report - outlining a method/tool for working with mountain communities and integrating modern and traditional knowledge conservation approaches – to a United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) database. The worldwide database gathers various uses of Local, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and Practices for Climate Adaptation.

Since 2003, Active Remedy has researched the relationship among the global water cycle, climate and mixed mountain forests. Having looked into the extreme imbalances that are presently taking place within the global water cycle and the exacerbating effects that the mass deforestation of mixed mountain forests worldwide is having upon this cycle, they sought a way to support mountain region reforestation globally within the next thirty years. Since 2006, in conjunction with mountain communities of the Himalayas, the NGO has been designing a method/tool that could be used to facilitate this endeavour.

This tool is called the Sacred Groves and Green Corridors (SGGC) method, which is way of working directly with mountain communities that integrates modern and traditional knowledge conservation methods. It does this through combining the conservation methods of sacred groves, green-corridors/greenbelts, permaculture and companion planting. Because it has been formulated in relation to these communities, it offers a diversity of approaches that are in harmony with and are adaptable to local ecosystems and the social values, traditions and spiritual customs of local people. This method has not solely been formulated for implementation in the Himalayas. It is designed so that it can be applied and adapted to facilitate worldwide ecological restoration, preservation and adaptation efforts.

See the report on the UNFCCC portal

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