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Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

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Organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (Global Platform), as recognized by the UN General Assembly, is the main forum at the global level for strategic advice, coordination, partnership development and the review of progress in the implementation of international...

Global Himalayan Expedition wins tourism award

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Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE), a Mountain Partnership member from India, won the Start-Up Innovation Award for the category of “impact tourism” at the fifth World Tourism Forum Lucerne in Lucerne, Switzerland on 4-5 May 2017. GHE earned this prize for their business model of leveraging tourism and technology...

Eradicating poverty in mountains

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The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS), a Mountain Partnership member in General Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), contributed a written statement on behalf of the Mountain Partnership to the 2017 ECOSOC Integration Segment on 8-10 May 2017. As the theme of...

Chogoria Mount Kenya Mountain Run (Postponed)

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Due to weather conditions, this event has been postponed until November 2017 - more information coming soon.

Mara Expeditions Community Based Organization, in collaboration with the Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Forest Service, Athletics Kenya, Flexi-Biogas and Tharaka- Nithi County Government, is organizing a mountain running half marathon on Mount...

Greening the Economy in the Alpine Region

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The Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the German Environment Agency, and the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention are pleased to announce the Alpine-wide conference on “Greening the Economy in the Alpine Region”. The aim of the conference is to present the outcomes of the sixth Report...

Latest newsletter from the Mount Kenya Trust

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The Mount Kenya Trust shares news of its recent events and initiatives in the latest edition of “Mountain Dispatches”, the Mount Kenya Trust’s quarterly newsletter. Covering news from January through March 2017, the newsletter opens with a message from Executive Officer Susie Weeks, who explains that despite drought...