The UNCSD Rio+20 summit and the future we want: Mountains, living solutions for developmentpeak to peakIssue 52 - Month 05 - Year 2012
Mountain goods and services sustain our future and are at the heart of a green economy. During Rio+20, a Mountain Pavilion will showcase this and more. While theMountain Partnershipwill share the building blocks...
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Workshop: The Impact of Retreating Glaciers in the Andes - Multidisciplinary International Network for Adaptation StrategieseventThe workshop, organized by the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) and the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme of UNESCO, with the support of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at FAO, the Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN), the Andean Climate Change Interamerican Observatory Network (ACCION), the Working Group...
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World Environment Day 2012: UNEP calls for actionnewsWorld Environment Day 2012 will be celebrated on 5 June 2012, under the theme "Green Economy: Does it include you?". World Environment Day 2012, hosted by Brazil, will mark the 40th anniversary of the Day. The celebration began in 1972 and has grown to become one of the main vehicles...
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Mountain Voice for change that mattersnewsOver 200 delegates from Indian eleven mountain States at Gangtok in Sikkim deliberated on mountain issues related to water, livelihoods and Communities & forests of the Indian Himalayan region at the Indian Mountain Initiative summit II, held from 25 to 26 May 2012 at Gangtok, Sikkim in India. In his...
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Ninth International Banana Forum and First International Congress of Biotechnology and BiodiversityeventThe First International Congress of Biotechnology and Biodiversity will be held from 28 to 31 May 2012, at the Hilton Colon Hotel in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The Congress, organized by the Biotechnology Research Center of Ecuador and the Association of Banana Exporters of Ecuador, will be run in parallel with the...
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Solar Desalination System for Arid Land AgriculturenewsResearchers of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel, have created a human-made oasis in the Arava Valley, a desert area south of the Dead Sea, Israel, with the successful application of a solar-powered desalination system that provides water for irrigation in arid regions. The solar-powered system uses nanofiltration membranes...
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