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United Nations General Assembly Resolution: Sustainable Mountain Development (2016)

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Resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on Sustainable mountain development at 71st Session. A/71/463/Add.10

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Call for abstracts: Mt Kilimanjaro conference

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AfroMont, the African chapter of the international Mountain Research Initiative, invites researchers working on African mountains to submit abstracts for the upcoming Mount Kilimanjaro Mountain Research Conference. The conference theme is "African mountain ecosystems under global change: linking biodiversity, biotic interactions and biogeochemical ecosystem processes". Abstracts may be...

Online mountain assessment tool launched

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Issue 100 – Month 1 – Year 2017

The January issue of Peak to Peak presents the launch of a new online tool that facilitates international and cross-disciplinary collaboration on the assessment, conservation and sustainable use of mountain biodiversity. The newsletter continues with a call to highlight...

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Incentivizing Mountain Communities for Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate

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The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and partners will host a special session on incentivizing mountain communities for ecosystem services in the context of a changing climate at the International Conference on Biodiversity, Climate Change Assessment and Impacts on Livelihoods, set to take place...

Mountain Regions, Territories of Innovation

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The Laboratoire D’Excellence Innovation et Territiores de Montagne (LabEx ITEM) will host “Mountain Regions, Territories of Innovation”. The conference will investigate the future of mountain regions in the face of climate change and changing relationships between communities and nature. How do endogenous and exogenous processes of change and adaptation transforming...

Publication on waste management in mountains

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A new report looks at the growing issue of waste in the world’s mountain regions. Launched by GRID-Arendal, the International Solid Waste Management Association and the United Nations Environment Programme on 11 December, International Mountain Day, “Waste management Outlook for Mountain Regions - Sources and solutions” highlights both...