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Mountain Partnership members start Post-2015 strategy

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Issue 63 - Month 11 - Year 2013

Our new issue of Peak to Peak opens with news about Mountain Partnership members convening to brainstorm on how to ensure mountains are included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)....

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Impacts of Global Climate Change on Snow, Glaciers and Water Resources in the Andes

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This science and policy workshop, organized by the Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), will bring together researchers and policy makers to work on policy recommendations for adaptation strategies on global change impacts...

Global Landscapes Forum addresses mountains

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Local community empowerment is essential to building climate change resilience in mountains, concluded the panelists and participants at a two-hour session moderated by Thomas Hofer, Coordinator of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, at the Global Landscapes Forum in Warsaw, Poland, on 16 November 2013. The session, called “Building Climate Change Resilience...

Kyrgyz women share experiences with rural Afghan women

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The Agency for Development Initiatives (ADI), a network of women self-help groups in Kyrgyzstan, is hosting a group of Afghan women, who arrived on 19 November 2013 for a seven-day visit. The Afghan women are keen to learn the experience of Kyrgyz rural women on social mobilization, economic...

Building Climate Change Resilience in Mountains

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The Mountain Partnership (MP) will hold a two-hour session called “Building Climate Change Resilience in Mountains” during the Global Landscapes Forum on 16 November 2013 in Warsaw, Poland. The two-day Forum, held on the sidelines of the 19th session of the Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on...

International conference on balancing renewable energy and nature in the Alps

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With demand for renewable energy growing across Europe, the partners of the international project recharge.green are working to reconcile using renewable energy sources, preserving nature and ecosystem service provisioning and keeping conflicts to a minimum. The project is establishing a decision support system for politicians and energy producers. Hear the...