Solar energy for Tajik mountain communitiesnewsRural inhabitants of Tajikistan are particularly vulnerable to energy poverty. Factors in this are extreme weather conditions which can isolate mountain areas for several months of the year, a poorly maintained infrastructure and increasing unpredictability of the climate. The dissolution of a centralized fuels and lubricants delivery system was the...
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Second Edition of Alpen-Forum-InnsbruckeventThe Alpen-Forum-Innsbruck is an initiative aimed to provide a forum for public information and discussion to address the issue of climate change in the Alpine region. The second edition of forum will be held 20 October at 18.00 in the City Hall of Innsbruck, Austria. This event is open to...
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Camp for mudflow-affected villages in TajikistannewsThe Center for Climate Change and Disaster Reduction (CCDR) with the financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), organized a Youth Summer Camp “Alast” (Renaissance) on 21-25 August 2015, for the children and youth of the recently mudflow-affected villages of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous...
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Meeting discusses inclusive mountain developmentnewsThe Fourth International Women of the Mountains Conference (WOMC) was co-organized by Utah Valley University (UVU) and the International University of Kyrgyzstan (IUK) in Orem, Utah, USA on 7-9 October 2015. For the first time, the Utah International Mountain Forum (UIMF), a coalition of student clubs at UVU...
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Mountain science community gathers in PerthnewsMore than 400 scientists, researchers and practitioners from across the global came to Perth, Scotland on 4-8 October 2015 to attend the largest scientific conference on mountains. The four-day international conference, structured around three research themes, featured 45 sessions and eight roundtables on interdisciplinary themes ranging from socio-ecological changes to...
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Mountain Partnership Steering Committee meetingeventThe Mountain Partnership Steering Committee (SC) meeting will take place in Turin, Italy on 14-15 October 2015. The second meeting of the Steering Committee in 2015 will focus on the strategic positioning of the Mountain Partnership and its role in moving the mountain agenda forward. The SC will provide an overview...
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