Second Mountain Day to be held at UNFCCC meet in DohaeventThe second annual Mountain Day will take place during this year’s Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha in December. The event is organized each year to bring attention to the vulnerability of mountain ecosystems and mountain people to the impacts...
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MRD: Call for papers on "Land Acquisition in Mountains: Implications for Sustainable Development"newsIn recent years, large-scale land acquisition by private and public investors has been a dynamic and much debated trend, often triggering extensive land use changes. From a mountain community perspective, it is timely to explore whether this trend and debate have any relevance to sustainable mountain development and if so,...
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Sustainable Mountain Development, Green Economy and Institutions: From Rio 1992 to Rio 2012 and beyond Global Report (2012) - Final Draft for Rio+20publicationIn 1992, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development – commonly referred to as ‘Rio 1992’ or ‘the Rio Earth Summit’ – mountains received unexpected high political attention. They were granted a chapter in the ‘Agenda 21’ as fragile ecosystems that matter for humankind. In view of the UN Conference Rio+20 –... Download » |
The Future We Want: Outcome document adopted at Rio+20 - Mountains (2012)publicationUnited Nations General Assembly Resolution: Sustainable Mountain ... The Future We Want: Outcome document adopted at Rio+20 - Mountains (2012).
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Concordia Rescue Team: The Alpine Rescue is bornnewsIt’s born the Alpine Rescue in the Karacorum called “Concordia Rescue Team”. With a team entirely made up of Pakistani qualified personnel and a base on the Concordia Glaciers, it is equipped with a hyperbaric chamber, oxygen cylinders and first aid equipment necessary at high altitude. The team has already...
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Tibetan Glaciers Shrinking Rapidly: comprehensive survey reveals influence of prevailing windsnewsThe majority of glaciers on the Tibetan plateau - 100,000 square kilometers of glaciers that supply water to about 1.4 billion people in Asia - and in the surrounding region - are retreating rapidly, according to a study based on 30 years of satellite and field measurements. The research by...
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