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Mountain Partnership project highlighted at The World Farmers Markets Coalition Second General Assembly

19.07.2024

On 12 July 2024, industry leaders, agriculture experts and farmers gathered from around the world for an event focused on leveraging partnerships to enhance local food systems. The event featured a series of roundtable discussions aimed at identifying and forging new alliances.

The first roundtable discussion explored the challenges and opportunities...

Worldwide glacier information app launches

02.12.2015

The new “wgms Glacier App”, developed by the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), shows how glaciers have evolved around the globe and is being launched on 2 December 2015 in...

Volunteering for the MP Secretariat

01.12.2015

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat is especially grateful for the support of its volunteers and interns, including Samantha Abear, whose volunteer term ends in December 2015. Prior to joining the MPS...

Mountain events at climate change summit

30.11.2015

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat and numerous Mountain Partnership members are organizing side events, photo exhibitions and other events to bring attention to mountains during the 21st session of the...

New solar panels for remote Tajik schools

27.11.2015

In 2015, environmental organization Little Earth installed two more solar photovoltaic systems in schools in the Bartang valley area of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajikistan. This activity was implemented within the...

Summer school on study of mountain soils

25.11.2015

The Italian Society of Soil Science (SISS) is organizing a joint international summer school for Phd students and young researchers on studying soil processes in mountain ecosystems to be held...

Report proposed on climate change in mountains

24.11.2015

The Government of Switzerland is planning to propose an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Mountains, for which the support of specialized institutions and organizations...