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Kendal Mountain Festival

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The 16th Kendal Mountain Film Festival – an internationally renowned event – will bring together filmmakers, TV producers, speakers, adventurers, lecturers and all sorts of outdoor enthusiasts to participate in four days of activities related to mountains and adventure sports.

The festival will screen over 50 films in a wide range...

Mountains are crucial for achieving 2030 goals

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Mountain Partnership member Active Remedy Ltd has recently released a document looking into the new UN sustainable development plan, 'Transforming Our World; the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development'. They have set out recommendations for achieving the wide spectrum of Sustainable Development Goals and targets in an integrated and...

New global mountain database to launch

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A new global database for the collection of data relevant to mountains will be launched in 2016 by researchers at Utah Valley University in Utah, USA. The database, called ‘Summit’, is a knowledge and action network created for compiling information regarding sustainable development, conflict transformation, peace-building and reconciliation in mountain...

Call for symposia for Mountains 2016 conference

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Call for symposia: the first International Conference on Research for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions (ICRSDMR) invites proposals for symposia sessions (parallel sessions during the conference) to be submitted by 31 December 2015.

The Conference will take place 5-7 October 2016 in Bragança, Portugal. It aims to share knowledge...

MP Ambassador joins interfaith campaign

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His Holiness, the Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang, Ambassador of the Mountain Partnership, is one of many religious leaders from around the world standing behind a petition that urges the international community to respond to the threat of climate change. The Great Shravasti Buddhist Cultural Assembly 2015, passed a resolution in Shravasti,...

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Issue 86 – Month 11 – Year 2015

The November issue of the Peak to Peak opens with a story about the online petition calling for action on climate change in mountains. The newsletter also features news about MP Steering Committee and Perth Conference on state of...