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Mountain summer course in Italy to open

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Issue 106 – Month 7 – Year 2017

The July issue of Peak to Peak begins with an announcement of the opening of the 2017 International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO) on 5 July in Ormea and Pieve Tesino, Italy. The newsletter...

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FAO's Work in Sustainable Mountain Development and Watershed Management—A 2017 Update

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provides an update on its activities related to sustainable mountain development and watershed management in this 2017 platform statement published in Volume 37, Issue 2 (May 2017) of Mountain Research and Development.

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Mountain newspaper wins Energy Globe Award

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Aiyl Demi, a monthly Kyrgyz-language newspaper designed to serve remote mountain communities, has won the Energy Globe Award in the national category for Kyrgyzstan. Also referred to as the “Oscar of the environment”, the Energy Globe Award was founded in 1999 by Austrian energy pioneer Wolfgang Neumann and is one...

CinemAmbiente Environmental Film Festival

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Since its inception in 1998, the “CinemAmbiente” Environmental Film Festival has presented some of the best in environmental films. The festival seeks to address the myriad issues related to the environment, including pollution, consumerism, food, waste production and management, genetically modified organisms (GMO), sustainable development and climate change, with a...

Eradicating poverty in mountains

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The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS), a Mountain Partnership member in General Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), contributed a written statement on behalf of the Mountain Partnership to the 2017 ECOSOC Integration Segment on 8-10 May 2017. As the theme of...

Mountains, one year after the Paris Agreement

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Issue 104 – Month 5 – Year 2017

The May issue of Peak to Peak reveals that 36 countries mentioned mountains in the first Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) they submitted after signing and ratifying the Paris Agreement. The newsletter continues with stories about the Third World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)...