Nepal: Destructive flood hits PokharanewsA destructive flood occurred 20 km north of Pokhara - the famous tourist spot - 200 km away from Kathmandu, in the early morning of 5 May 2012. Thirteen people were killed by the flood, while houses and farms were swept away: 47 people are still missing. Superintendent of Police...
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Small Island Developing States Consultation on Sustainable Energy for AlleventThe Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Conference, co-hosted by the Government of Barbados and the UN Development Programme (UNDP), will take place in Bridgetown, Barbados from 7 to 9 May 2012. Under the theme "Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in SIDS–Challenges, Opportunities and Commitments," the Conference and Roll-out of the...
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Messner Mountain MuseummultimediaCelebrities are pledging acts of green and the Mountain Partnership has found its first Ambassador in mountaineer, former politician, farmer and explorer Reinhold Messner. “Great things occur when men and mountains meet”, were we reminded in an exclusive interview that will be launched at the UN Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable...
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Sustainable Biomass for Electricity Conference (SB4E)eventThe Conference on Sustainable Biomass for Electricity (SB4E), organized by UN-Energy, Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) and International Energy Agency (IEA Bioenergy) with the support of Dong Energy, Eskom, E.on and BioElectric Solutions, will be held in Güssing, Austria on 2-4 May 2012. Acknowledging the readily available and cost effective potential...
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Asian glaciers bucking trend of climate change ice meltnewsBucking the global trend, glaciers in the Karakoram region, north of the Himalaya, have been shown to be growing, gaining as much water from precipitation as they were losing from melting, bucking the global trend. The new study of the Karakoram used French satellite measurements to predict changes in the...
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Pakistan’s first climate change adaptation plan to tackle “mountain tsunamis”newsPakistan, with its 5,218 glaciers and 2420 glacial lakes – 52 of which have been classified as potentially dangerous – has launched its first climate change adaptation project aimed at tackling the threats communities face from bursting glacier lakes in the country’s northern mountains. The US$ 4.1 million project in...
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