MP Ambassador visits the Peruvian Andes

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In his first official visit as a Mountain Partnership (MP) Ambassador, His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang took time from his pilgrimage to the Andes for a meeting in Lima, Peru, on 15 May 2015 with The Mountain Institute’s Andean Program Director and staff....

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Presentation of the First Report on the Mountains of Italy

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The Fondazione Montagne Italia  (or Italian Mountain Foundation, FMI), an organization established last year by National Organization of Mountain Municipalities, Communities and Bodies (UNCEM) and the Federazione Nazionale dei Consorzi di Bacino Imbrifero Montano (Federbim), will present the First Report on the Mountains of Italy. This report is...

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ICT for Mountain Development Award 2015

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On the occasion of the World Environment Day (WED), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is pleased to launch the ICT for Mountain Development Award  for the second consecutive year. The Award recognizes innovations in information and communications technology...

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Expo recognizes the Mountain Partnership

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This year’s Universal Exposition, better known as Expo, in Milan, Italy, featured a week dedicated solely to mountains on 4–11 June 2015. Mountain Week was a series of events about sustainable development, agriculture and mountain products from around the world.

Expo 2015 also listed the Mountain Partnership (MP) among its Read more »

Mountains cited at global water conference

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The High Level International Conference on the Implementation of the International Decade of Water for Life (2005-2015), held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 9-10 June 2015, included a reference to mountains in its outcome document.

The two-page concluding declaration published by the Conference acknowledges the connection between mountains and water...

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Supporting climate policy for mountain ecosystems

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Carbon markets and climate finance payments are being used to incentivize the mitigation of CO₂ arising from anthropogenic land-use change in forests, marine ecosystems, and lowland grasslands. However, no such consideration has been given to how these ‘carbon finance incentives’ might be applied to mountain grasslands and shrublands, ecosystems that contain...

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