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Issue 95 – Month 8 – Year 2016

The August issue of Peak to Peak calls for case studies on mountain culture for International Mountain Day (IMD) communication materials. The newsletter continues with stories about a mountain apricot community in the Kyrgyz Republic, a call...

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A Kyrgyz mountain water legend

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Though the province of Batken in Kyrgyzstan is located south of the Fergana Valley, a very fertile part of Central Asia, it can hardly be called a ‘place of heaven’. The landscape is flat with a lack of vegetation, surrounded by rocky mountains. Arid climate and scarcity of water resources...

How NGOs can apply for UNFCCC observer status

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For representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to attend any sessions or meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), they must first be admitted by the Conference of the Parties (COP) as observer organizations. If your organization is interested in being admitted as an observer organization, you...

Increasing mountain forest cover in Costa Rica

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Costa Rica, a country with an area of only 51 100 sq km, contains a wealth of species, approximately 3.6 percent of the expected biodiversity of the planet (between 13 and 14 million species). The country has an approximate record of 94 753 known species, i.e., about 5 percent of...

Promoting the mountain agenda at the UN

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Mountain Partnership (MP) members, with support from the MP Secretariat, campaigned for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in mountain areas, ahead of and during the United Nations High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development on 18-20 July in New York, USA.

The HLPF, organized under the auspices of the Economic and...

Call for case studies on mountain culture

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Your case studies are invited for the factsheets currently being created by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) for International Mountain Day (IMD), which will take place on 11 December 2016. “Mountain Cultures: celebrating diversity and strengthening identity” is the theme chosen for this year’s...