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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:13:17 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World Landslide Forum 3]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[World Landslide Forum 3, organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) and the China Geological Survey (CGS), aims to provide an information and academic exchange platform for landslide researchers and practitioners. It creates an opportunity to promote worldwide cooperation and to share new theories, technologies and methods in the fields of landslide survey/investigation, monitoring, early warning, prevention and emergency [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Conference on Climate Change, Water Resources and Disasters in Mountainous Regions: Building Resilience to Changing Climate]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Society of Hydrologists and Meteorologists Nepal (SOHAM-Nepal), the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) of the Government of Nepal, and UNESCO International Hydrological Programme Nepal (IHP) National Committee will jointly organise an International Conference on Climate Change, Water Resources and Disasters in Mountainous Regions: Building Resilience to Changing Climate from 27 to 29 November 2013 in Nepal.
The Conference will [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High Summit 2013 International Conference on Mountains and Climate Change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Ev-K2-CNR Committee is organizing the High Summit 2013 International Conference on Mountains and Climate Change in Lecco, Italy, 23-25 October 2013.
The conference aims to present current knowledge on mountain ecosystems from scientific and socio-economic points of view, and high-level speakers will facilitate discussions among the experts and the conference audience.
A document summarizing the main outcomes of the meeting will [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fourth International Mountain Forum]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Tatra Agency for Development, Promotion and Culture is holding the fourth International Mountain Forum 23-25 October in Zakopane, Poland.The aim of the conference is to reinforce cooperation in mountain regions through joint promotional actions, both within the European Union and in the international arena.This year the conference will be dedicated to the international cultural project Carpathian Sheep Transhumance 2013.For [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Commission for the Protection for the Alps (CIPRA) Annual Conference]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Commission for the Protection for the Alps (CIPRA) will hold its annual conference in Brescia, Italy, 10-12 October.
Among topics of discussion will be responsibility for the sustainable management of water in the Alps and the impact of climate change on water resources in the region.
For more information see www.cipra.org/fr/ca2013]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Snow Science Workshop]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Snow Science Workshop will be held for the first time in France 7-11 October 2013 at the Alpexpo in Grenoble with the goal of promoting interaction between practitioners and researchers in the fields of snow and avalanches.  The workshop runs for the entire week and participants will also go on a field trip to visit the Chamonix [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The World Wilderness Congress (WWC): WILD10-Make the World a Wilder Place]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[How can we protect, sustain and restore wild nature while also providing enhanced social and economic opportunities for human society? A full concept paper and specific proposals are available for WILD10 projects under three main streams: PLANET - Nature Needs Half, PROSPERITY - Living With and From Nature and PEOPLE - Mobilizing Constituencies and Building a Social Movement. Practical outcomes [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[8th Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) Conference: call for abstracts]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/165439/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The 8th Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) Conference, organized by the University of Zagreb and Instituto Superior Tecnico - Lisbon and under the patronage of UNESCO - Paris, European Commission, DG RTD, FP INCO Programme - Brussels and other partner institutions, organisations and networks will be held from 22 to 27 September 2013 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mount Damavand  National Day & Tirgan Celebration ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/176439/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Suldoz Kouhyaran Institute will hold a Mount Damavand National Day and Tirgan Celebration at Mount Damavand, Iran, 17-19 September. The celebrations will include a two-day climb of Mount Damavand, a dormant volcano of 18,406 feet which is the highest peak in Iran and the Middle East.
For more information see www.kouhyaran.com/en/ 
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Symposium of the Macedonian Geographical Society: Problems and Perspectives of Hilly Mountain Areas]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/169134/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Macedonian Geographical Society will hold a scientific symposium entitled Problems and Perspectives of Hilly Mountain Areas in Ohrid, Macedonia, 12-15 September.Topics will include natural resources and land use in hilly mountain areas, demographic problems, economic and regional development policy, infrastructure, hazards and European policies and programs.Deadline for abstract submission is 30 April 2013.Registration deadline is 30 June.For more information [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Integrated Development in an Era of Multidimensional Crisis]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/170228/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[This interuniversity conference organized by the Metsovion Interdisciplinary Research Centre addresses the issues of technology, development, monitoring and protection of mountainous environments among other topics with contributions from scientists, graduate engineers and teaching and research staff from Greek universities.
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[European Foresty Commission Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/171909/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The 29th Session of the European Foresty Commission Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds will be held in Montgen&egrave;vre, France, 3-5 September.The main topic under discussion will be natural disaster risk management in mountain areas.The meeting is being jointly organized by the Minist&egrave;re de l&rsquo;agriculture, de l&rsquo;agro-alimentaire et de la for&ecirc;t, the Office national des for&ecirc;ts, and FAO. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CAMP Forum 2013: Energy - Efficiency - Future]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/176232/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Central Asian Mountain Program (CAMP) Forum will take place 27-29 August this year in Kalmak Ashu village, Chuy Oblast, Kyrgyzstan. The topic of the forum will be Energy - Efficiency - Future: Access and innovation for Mountain Communities.
The CAMP network unites four agencies working for sustainable development of mountain villages in Central Asia: CAMP Alatoo in Kyrgyzstan, CAMP Kuhiston [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High Level International Conference on Water Cooperation]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/177801/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The High Level International Conference on Water Cooperation will take place 20-22 August in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The main objective of the conference is to contribute to improvement of water cooperation through advocating for successful policies and best practices, wider public participation, and encouragement of policy makers to promote water cooperation at all levels.
The conference is organized by the government of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Fourth European Fair of Regional Products]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/172018/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Tatra Agency for Development, Promotion and Culture is organizing the Fourth European Fair of Regional Products in Zakopane, Poland, 10-15 August.
Targeting tourists visiting the Tatra Mountains as well as the people of the Tatra region, the fair is aimed at promoting and protecting quality food products.
For more information visit http://www.produkty-regionalne.eu/]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Research Initiative Key Contact Workshop]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/176920/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Research Initiative is holding a Key Contact Workshop in Minneapolis, USA, on 3 August 2013.
This workshop brings together researchers from around the world working on change in mountain regions to present overviews of their work, comment on the work of their peers and discover opportunities for new interdisciplinary research collaborations.
The workshop is being held ahead of the Ecological [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Hamburg Conference: Actions for Climate Induced Migration]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/169445/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Hamburg Conference: Actions for Climate Induced Migration takes place in Hamburg, Germany, 16-18 July, and aims to bring together top scientists, experts, practitioners and decision-makers to share evidence-based knowledge and experiences on climate-Induced migration.
The conference's four theematic streams are Climate-Induced Migration and Urbanization, Climate-Induced Migration and Rural Livelihoods, Climate-Induced Migration and Rapid Onset Extreme Events, and Climate-Induced Migration and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Understanding upland watershed management - International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/169920/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The sixth IPROMO training programme on sustainable mountain development jointly organized by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat and the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Turin will take place 12-22 July in Ormea Italy.The aim of this year&rsquo;s course is to share with the selected participants key facts about importance of upland watershed management and the approaches and methods for [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Third International High Mountain Glacial Watershed Conference ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/168196/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;
The 3rd International High Mountain Glacial Watershed Conference will bring together scientists, practitioners, decision makers, and other stakeholders from the Andes, Asia, and the rest of the world to experience the &ldquo;living laboratory&rdquo; of the Peruvian Andes.&nbsp; Unlike past conferences, this event will focus on learning through a series of hands-on training modules led by expert practitioners who have extensive [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Third Pole Environment under Global Changes]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/168323/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Third Pole Environment Program (TPE), the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) are inviting abstracts for a session entitled The Third Pole Environment under Global Changes at the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Annual Meeting in Brisbane, Australia, 24-28 June.The session welcomes contributions on a wide range of relevant topics, such as issues [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We Create the Climate! Civic Participation and Climate Change in Alpine Cities]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/174891/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Alpine Town of the Year Association and ALPSTAR are organizing the We Create The Climate! Conference in Villach, Austria, 20-21 June.
The aim of the conference is to publicize success stories from municipalities in the Alps that are reducing emissions and promoting the use of renewable energies.
ALPSTAR is cofunded by the European Regional Development Fund, within the European Territorial Cooperation [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kenya Forest Service wins award for montane forest project]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/178225/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Kenya Forest Service has won a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) award for its implementation of a sustainable livelihood development project in the country's largest montane forest.The service received the Edouard Saouma Award, presented to institutions that have implemented with particular efficiency a project funded by FAO's Technical Cooperation Programme, for its work in the Mau Forest.Stretching over the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Alpine Summer School: Climate Change and the Mountain Environment]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/168447/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Climate Change and the Mountain Environment is the topic of this year's Italian-French Alpine Summer School on Fundamental Processes in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and the Climate System in Valsavarenche, Italy, 18-28 June.
The summer school is organized&nbsp; by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate - CNR (Italy) and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France).The summer school is devoted [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Registration open for Mountain Research Initiative Key Contact Workshop]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/178160/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;
Registration is open for the Mountain Research Initiative&rsquo;s Key Contact Workshop, which will be held in Minneapolis, USA, on 3 August 2013.
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Held ahead of the Ecological Society of America annual meeting in the same city, the workshop brings together researchers on change in mountain regions from around the world to present overviews of their work, comment on that of their [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[  Call for abstracts on water cooperation]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/177802/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Organizers of the High Level International Conference on Water Cooperation that will take place 20-22 August in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, are calling for abstracts.Scholars from across the world are invited to submit abstracts or half page concepts in English or Russian of scientific papers, posters, articles, chapters, books and dissertations relevant for the conference. The deadline for submission of abstracts is [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Days 2013]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/161736/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Days event is organized by the Swiss-Austrian Alliance for Mountain Research and aims to exchange of information on ongoing and planned research activities in Switzerland and Austria and foster existing and stimulating new research partnerships. The event is organized in coordination with the Symposium for Research in Protected Areas (10-12 June 2013, Hohe Tauern National Park Center in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[GLORIA Andes Network meets in Quito]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/177029/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA) Andes Network met in Quito, Ecuador, in May to add new monitoring sites to GLORIA&rsquo;s global database.
The purpose of GLORIA is to establish a global observation network for the long-term study of trends in biodiversity and climate change in high mountains, with data subsequently used to assess and predict species loss [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ National Scientific Conference: The Importance of Mountain Areas in Europe 2020 Strategy]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/168922/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Committee on Management of Mountain Regions of the Polish Academy of Sciences will hold a national scientific conference on the importance of mountain areas on Europe 2020 strategy on 7 June in Wroclaw, Poland.The aim of the conference is to assess the scale and scope of the influence of &ldquo;Europe 2020" strategy on upland and mountainous areas. Topics under [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Workshop on International Mountain Cooperation]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/176438/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Italian Presidency of the Alpine Convention is organizing a workshop focusing on the sub-national and local levels of mountain cooperation on 6-7 June in Budoia, Italy.
The workshop will involve seven working sessions dedicated to the sub-national mountain cooperation in a specific area: the Alps, the Carpathians, the Dinarc Alps, the Caucasus, the South America, the Central Asia and the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Call for posters for High Summit 2013 Conference]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/177502/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Ev-K2-CNR Committee has issued a call for posters from young researchers and students for its High Summit 2013 International Conference on Mountains and Climate Change taking place in Lecco, Italy, 23-25 October.
The scientific meeting welcomes abstracts on a variety of topics under the following headings: climate, mountain ecosystems, cryosphere, water, and environmental and socio-economic impacts of climate change.
The deadline [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Inspiring programming for living European mountains by 2020]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/175305/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Euromontana and the Italian Rural Network will hold a conference on "Inspiring programming for living European mountains by 2020" in Rome on 6-7 June 2013.
The aim of the conference is to debate and find solutions for ensuring an integrated approach to the sustainable development of European mountains through innovative programmes for the period 2014-2020.Read More: http://www.reterurale.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/EN/IDPagina/11132]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership sponsors Scientific Journalism Seminar on high mountains]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/177028/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[More than 300 journalists, government officials, environmental researchers and students came together for the Seventh Scientific Journalism Seminar in Loja, Ecuador, 16-17 May, organized by the Foundation for Integration and Development of Latin America (FIDAL).
The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) and the Food and Agriculture Organization were among sponsors of the event, which this year focused on high mountains.
MPS Programme Officer [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Turkish mountain city chosen for Global Meeting]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 58 - Month 6 - Year 2013

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Our new issue of Peak to Peak provides an update on preparations for the Fourth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership, which will take place in Turkey in September. We also look at new Mountain Partnership members and activities, see what members have been working on in Africa, Asia Pacific, Central Asia, Europe [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Research and Development issue online]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/177118/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Mountain Research and Development is now online.
Papers in Volume 33, Issue 2, address diverse key concerns of sustainable mountain development as identified in the final outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).
These include how stakeholder analysis can enhance integrated water management in Uganda; how communication endeavors can improve livestock extension measures in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fifth Regional Meeting on Mountain Forests - First Symposium of Las Yungas Biosphere Reserve]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/168460/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Fifth Regional Meeting on Mountain Forests - First Symposium of Las Yungas Biosphere Reserve (Ten Years of Experiences and Challenges) will take place in &nbsp;San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina, 30-31 May.
The meeting aims to bring together researchers from various disciplines working in the areas of mountain jungles and/or Las Yungas Biosphere Reserve to exchange knowledge and to identify possible [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[First regional workshop for Andes technical cooperation project]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/177027/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Government representatives from six Andean countries met in Quito, Ecuador in May for the first workshop of the regional technical cooperation project &ldquo;Fortalecimiento de la gesti&oacute;n participativa para el desarrollo sostenible de los Andes", which aims to strengthen and expand institutional capacity for promoting sustainable mountain development in the region.
Funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and implemented by [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Change and Migration in Mountain Areas Workshop]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/170172/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The 2nd workshop on Climate Change and Migration in Mountain Areas will take place 28-29 May 2013 at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland. It will aim to bring together scholars with a strong interest in migration and climate change in mountain areas, covering the world&rsquo;s major mountain ranges, including the Himalayas, the Andes and the Alps. Abstracts in English [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Project aims to alleviate poverty in Moroccan mountains]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A project by the Moroccan government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to develop agricultural commodities in the mountain areas of Al Haouz, Morocco, is moving into its second phase this year.
The project will directly benefit approximately 33,000 people &ndash; including smallholder farmers and livestock producers, women, young people and landless farmers &ndash; whose livelihoods are affected by [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Applications open for Rolex Awards for Enterprise]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Applications are open for the Rolex Awards for Enterprise, which are given for new or ongoing projects anywhere in the world that deserve support for their capacity to improve lives or protect the world&rsquo;s natural and cultural heritage.
This year is exclusively devoted to young candidates between the ages of 18 and 30. Applicants are asked to submit projects that tackle [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, &lsquo;Invest Today for a Safer
Tomorrow&rsquo;, will be held at the International Conference Centre of Geneva 19-23 May 2013.
The biennial Global Platform gathers together the world's disaster risk community from governments,
international and intergovernmental organizations, NGOs, local community representatives, scientific and academic institutions and private businesses.
It continues to shape the future [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[7th Scientific Journalism Seminar: High Mountains]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/173070/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Partnership Secretariat and the Food and Agriculture Organization are among the sponsors of the 7th Scientific Journalism Seminar taking place in Loja, Ecuador, 16-17 May 2013.
The theme of this year&rsquo;s meeting is High Mountains: the economic, social and environmental importance of the Andes.
Participants at the seminar will come from Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and Spain among other countries.
More [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Preregistration open for Central Asian Mountain Program Forum 2013]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/176233/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Preregistration is now open for the Central Asian Mountain Program (CAMP) Forum, which will take place 27-29 August this year in Kalmak Ashu village, Chuy Oblast, Kyrgyzstan. The topic of the forum will be Energy - Efficiency - Future: Access and innovation for Mountain Communities.The CAMP network unites four agencies working for sustainable development of mountain villages in Central Asia: [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[VIDEO: The Mountain Institute's Director-General discusses mountains and climate change]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/175873/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The director-general of the Mountain Institute, Andrew Taber, has given a video interview about the work of the Institute and the mountain agenda.
Taber discusses working to alleviate climate change and poverty internationally throughout mountain regions in the interview for mOppenheim.TV., which specializes in the production of video interviews with non-profit leaders.
"Mountains are a major habitat globally which are really not [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ 50th anniversary of American Mount Everest expedition celebrated]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/peak-to-peak/newsletter-detail/en/c/175790/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 57 - Month 5 - Year 2013

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Our new issue of Peak to Peak reports on a new National Geographic Society book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first expedition of an American team to successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest. We also look at new Mountain Partnership members and activities, see what members have been working on in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scholarship available for online MSc in Sustainable Mountain Development]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/175461/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A scholarship towards the costs of participating in a part-time online MSc Sustainable Mountain Development offered by the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland, is available for one student starting in September 2013. The course is an activity of the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development.
The scholarship will pay all fees for a student to complete the MSc. It [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable tourism strategy for the Carpathian Mountains in development]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/174897/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The development of a strategy focusing on sustainable tourism development is under way in the countries of the Carpathian Mountains &ndash; the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine. Consultations are planned with representatives from governments, tourism agencies and NGOs along with a series of stakeholder meetings and national consultations and 14 case studies on sustainable tourism development [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kyrgyz Republic mountain forest project pilot sites discussed]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/174921/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Kyrgyz Republic-based Mountain Partnership members met with national consultants working on a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/Global Environment Facility (GEF) project on sustainable mountain forest management in Bishkek on 5 April 2013. The discussion was organized by the University of Central Asia to review the selection criteria of pilot territories developed and presented by the project&rsquo;s team of national consultants.
&ldquo;The [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Online MSc in sustainable mountain development ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/174889/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Places are available for the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) MSc in Sustainable Mountain Development, an online, part-time interdisciplinary degree addressing social, environmental, economic, and professional development issues in mountain areas.
The degree has unique international recognition as an activity of the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development, based at the Centre for Mountain Studies at Perth College UHI.
Part-time [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ICIMOD launches Water and Life photo competition]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is organizing a digital photo contest on the theme of 'Water and Life' to celebrate its 30th anniversary, coinciding with the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation 2013.
The aim of the contest is to increase attention to the importance of water and challenges of water-related issues in the Hindu Kush Himalayan [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Andean wetland research project launched in Bolivia]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/174072/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Bolivian Mountain Institute (BMI) is participating in BIO-THAW, an international project to&nbsp;model biodiversity and land use interactions under changing glacial water availability in the tropical high Andean wetlands of Bolivia.
The interdisciplinary project involves a broad community of scientists and stakeholders, from anthropologists, sociologists, glaciologists and ecologists to agent-based modellers, resource managers, and farmer communities.
Read more]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kindergartens and greenhouses in Kyrgyzstan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Public Foundation Mountain Societies Development Support Programme (MSDSP KG) is working on two projects in Kyrgyzstan.
The first has opened 18 community-based kindergartens in villages of Osh province to support local authorities in providing 1,620 children aged 4-6 with access to pre-school education in 2013. &nbsp;
The second project supports 10 farmers in 10 villages to construct cold-climate, Chinese-style greenhouses, which [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ICIMOD and SKODA team up for Nepal air quality]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the &Scaron;KODA Division of MAW Enterprises Private Limited have entered into a partnership to improve air quality in Nepal and raise awareness of the source of black carbon and its negative health and environmental impacts.
As part of the one-year partnership, complementing ICIMOD&rsquo;s work on atmospheric issues in the Hindu Kush Himalayan [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fourth Mountain Partnership Global Meeting set]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 56 - Month 4 - Year 2013

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Our new issue of Peak to Peak reports on the date set for the Fourth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership. We also look at new Mountain Partnership members and activities, see what members have been working on in Africa, Asia Pacific, Central Asia, Europe and Latin America, and round up recent publications [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fourth Mountain Partnership Global Meeting set]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Fourth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership will take place in Turkey, 17-20 September 2013. The global meeting will be key to endorsing the new four-year strategy and governance of the Mountain Partnership and to initiate work on its implementation.It will also provide a unique opportunity for members from across the world a chance to meet, network, present interesting [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Soluciones Prácticas creates online camelid farming portal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Soluciones Pr&aacute;cticas has created the largest digital repository of information on camelid farming in Latin America - a sector that involves more than 150,000 families in Peru and Bolivia.
Currently the portal contains 300 documents on themes including feeding, breeding, care, technology, processing and marketing.
Portal services include news, events, statistics, a specialist directory, announcements, publications and videos.
Visit the site]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global mountain stewardship award open for applications]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/173105/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) is accepting nominations for its global stewardship award, the UIAA Mountain Protection Award.
The award aims to highlight tourism activities that promote conservation of mountain ecosystems and sustainable livelihoods for local people.
Nominations close on 31 October and winners receive a cash grant.
Read more]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Role of Women in Agricultural Reform]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A conference entitled The Role of Women in Agricultural Reform organized by CAMP Kuhiston with the support of Oxfam will take place on March 28 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The conference will address the status and role of women in agriculture, with the aim of collectively advocating for gender equity in the process of agricultural reform. Representatives of relevant agencies, organizations, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Active Remedy contributes to UN water security report]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership member Active Remedy has contributed to a United Nations Analytical Brief on water security.Released in March to coincide with World Water Day, the brief explains issues of concern to the United Nations and its member states and recognizes that water security must be defined in its broadest sense, accommodating issues of human development, ecosystem protection, national and regional [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kyrgyz Republic mountain forest project gets under way]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/173166/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The first workshop in the preparation of a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/Global Environment Facility (GEF) project on &ldquo;Sustainable management of mountain forests and land resources of the Kyrgyz Republic under climate change conditions&rdquo; took place in Bishkek on 18 March 2013.
All 18 Mountain Partnership members in the country were invited to the meeting, which also included representatives of the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Commitment from Asian mountain experts on climate change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Experts from Asian mountains committed themselves to working together for social and ecological resilience to climate change at the Regional Workshop on Climate Change Impacts in Asian Mountains  in Kathmandu, Nepal, 13-15 March.
Senior government officials and experts from ten countries met for the workshop to promote collaboration on science, education, culture, and communication to lessen the impact of climate [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Call for case studies for new publication on Mountain Family Farming]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/173173/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Partnership Secretariat, the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) are planning a publication on mountain family farming to coincide with the 2014 UN International Year of Family Farming, in partnership with other key institutions.
The preparation of the publication is being coordinated by Professor Thomas [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Forests and Water: International Momentum and Action]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Forests play a crucial role in the hydrological cycle. A key challenge faced by land, forest and water managers is to maximize the wide range of forest benefits without detriment to water resources and ecosystem function. With partners, FAO is working to develop a comprehensive and practical international forests and water agenda to address this challenge. This publication synthesizes experiences [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain children draw for the International Day of Forests]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Association of Forest and Land Users of Kyrgyzstan organized a competition of children&rsquo;s drawings in the remote mountainous village of Kochkorka for the first International Forest Day, 21 March 2013.
The drawings were on show during a meeting of Mountain Partnership members based in Kyrgyzstan on March 19 in Bishkek.
To see the full gallery of drawings visit: http://bit.ly/Xsh26u]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[‘Vulture restaurants' among Maloti Drakensberg conservation efforts]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/172453/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Highly endangered Bearded Vultures are dining out at special &lsquo;vulture restaurants&rsquo; as part of conservation efforts in the Maloti and Drakensberg mountains.
The restaurants provide animal carcasses for the birds to feed on safe meat undisturbed, after their decline has been hastened by farmers lacing carcasses with poison to kill livestock predators such as hyenas and big cats.
The restaurants form part [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ New Mountain Research and Development issue online]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/171912/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A new issue of Mountain Research and Development is now available online.
Topics examined include adaptive capacity in hill farming, institutional and ecological aspects of rangeland management, geospatial selection of reforestation areas, effects of air pollution and other abiotic conditions on mountain forests, improved vegetation classification, downscaling of climate projections, land surface temperature assessment, and effects of weather on glacial debris [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Call for papers on Gender and Sustainable Development in Mountains]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/171911/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Research and Development (MRD) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) invite well-validated and sound analyses of approaches to, and conditions for, initiating gender-positive transformation in mountain environments.
Possible topics include gender-positive transformation and sustainable natural resource management, gender and adaptation to climate change, gender-responsive governance and gender-equitable compensation and benefit-sharing mechanisms.
Abstracts (250 words in length) are due [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[$9.8 million  investment in Eastern Afromontane Hotspot ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/170255/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) has launched a $9.8 million five-year conservation strategy for the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot, which comprises mountainous areas stretching from Saudi Arabia to Mozambique.
The hotspot contains more than 10,000 species, around one third of which are endemic.
It also provides crucial ecosystem services, particularly in terms of watersheds and support to agriculture and ultimately food [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UN award for fair trade coffee company]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/171536/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership member Dean&rsquo;s Beans Organic Coffee has received a United Nations award for empowering coffee-growers, primarily women, to improve their lives and their children&rsquo;s futures.
The American fair trade company and founder and CEO Dean Cycon were recognized with a Women&rsquo;s Empowerment Principles Leadership Award in Community Engagement for a record of innovative social and market-based approaches to realizing gender [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Year of Quinoa]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/peak-to-peak/newsletter-detail/en/c/171605/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 55 - Month 3 - Year 2013

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Our new issue of Peak to Peak marks the International Year of Quinoa and the run-up to the first-ever International Day of Forests. We also look at new Mountain Partnership members and activities, see what members have been working on in Africa, Asia Pacific, Central Asia, Europe and Latin America, and round up [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Medicinal plant industry can boost green jobs growth in Nepal]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/170905/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The growing global demand for medicinal and aromatic plants could help drive Nepal&rsquo;s green economy, according to a new study from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboraion with the Government of Nepal.The study focuses on the cultivation, processing and trade of high-value medicinal and aromatic plants, which are found in the forests and grasslands of the mountains in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Alpine Spring Festival]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/169346/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The first Alpine Spring Festival will take place in Bolzano, Italy, 4-8 March 2013.  An&nbsp;initiative of the Italian Presidency of the Alpine Convention and the Permanent Secretariat, the programme of the Alpine Spring Festival includes meetings and workshops&nbsp;on&nbsp;the main&nbsp;&nbsp;topics of interest&nbsp;for the Alpine region.
Among highlights will be the day-long conference on &ldquo;Sustainable Tourism in South Tyrol, Bolzano and its [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apples ‘souring' due to climate change]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/170645/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Sweet apples grown in the Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh are gradually losing their taste as a result of climate change, according to reports.
Farmers of the remote Mechuka valley in West Siang district are complaining that 15-20 years ago the apples they produced were sweet, but now the fruits taste sour.
Horticulturalists and climate change experts are blaming erratic weather and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Memoria del taller de Crianza del agua]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The National Secretariat for Risk Management, the Ministry of Environment Ecuador, and the United Nations Program for Development supported this initiative to recover ancestral knowledge about adaptation strategies used in various drought-prone locations in the Andean region facing water shortages, and looks at how this knowledge could help farmers today.
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership African Champions Committee launched]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[African members of the Mountain Partnership have agreed to create a new Mountain Partnership African Champions Committee to move the region's sustainable mountain development agenda forward.
At a regional meeting of the Mountain Partnership in Kigali, Rwanda, on 20 February, members reiterated their commitment to promoting sustainable mountain development, building on the results of the last regional meeting that took place [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Post-2015 Development Agenda Consultation on Water: Water Resources Management and Wastewater Management and Water Quality]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Post-2015 Development Agenda Consultation on Water: Water Resources Management and Wastewater Management and Water Quality will take place in Geneva, Switzerland. The Thematic Consultation on Water is being led by UN-Water, UNICEF and UN DESA, with the support of the governments of the Netherlands and Switzerland. This meeting will facilitate technical and political debate and synthesize discussions on water [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Applications open for Himalayan Glaciology programme]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Applications are now open for a four-week training programme on capacity building in Himalayan glaciology organised by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, under the auspices of the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem.
The programme takes place 1-27 April and aims to increase the human and institutional capacities of Indian students and researchers.
Deadline for applications is 10 March.
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Potatoes for food security in the Andes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A project to improve food security among vulnerable rural groups coordinated by Mountain Partnership member the International Potato Centre (CIP) is underway in four Latin American countries.
In the Andes, the potato is one of the most important crops in the agricultural sector. However, in areas where the tuber is produced, chronic malnutrition in children under 3 years still persists.
Launched in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountains: Key Players for Global Sustainable Developement]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountains: Key Players for Global Sustainable Developement]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thawing permafrost may be a “huge factor” in global warming]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thawing permafrost may be a bigger factor in global warming than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of North Carolina have found that when melting permafrost exposes ancient carbon to sunlight, it turns into carbon dioxide 40 percent faster compared to carbon that remains in the dark.
&ldquo;This means permafrost carbon is potentially a huge factor [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Regional Great Lakes Stakeholders Forum]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As part of a regional project entitled Stakeholders Engagement for Informed Decision-Making, Threats Mitigation and Sustainable Fresh Water Services Management in the Great Lakes Region of East and Central Africa, ARCOS is holding a regional stakeholders forum with the theme 'Addressing the drivers of change in the Freshwater Systems of the Great Lakes Region'.
The two-day event will take place in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Year of Quinoa launched]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Year of Quinoa was launched this week at a ceremony at UN headquarters in New York, where the crop&rsquo;s potential in the fight against hunger was underlined.
The event was attended by top officials from the Andean countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, in whose mountains the superfood originated."Quinoa is an ancestral gift of the Andean people," said [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Turning Strategies into a Programme: Alpine Space 2014-2020]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/168937/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[This stakeholder conference organized by the Alpine Space Programme will present results of an extensice process of stakeholder dialogue, give insights into tentative objectives for the Alpine Space Programme 2014-2020 and outline a vision for the future of the Alps and the role the Programme could take in Alpine governance.
Registration is open until 13 February 2013.
For more information see www.alpine-space.eu/information-center/events/stakeholder-conference-feb-2013/ [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountains under Watch 2013 (MUW13)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/162259/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountains Under Watch is an interdisciplinary conference that aims at bringing together scientists and experts working in the diverse fields of climate change studies in mountain areas around the world. The specific goal of the conference is to share experiences, methods and strategies for long term observations and monitoring of the climate change effects on different alpine environments, ranging from [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Enhancing the Mountain Partnership in Africa for Sustainable Development in African Water Towers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A regional meeting for Mountain Partnership members in Africa will take place on 20 February in Kigali, Rwanda.
The main objective of the meeting is to continue building an African agenda and a strong Mountain Partnership constituency on sustainable development of mountain ecosystems while also contributing to the climate change and water discussions.
The meeting has been organized by the Albertine Rift [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountains through the eyes of children ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership member Mountain Territories of Dagestan organized a drawing competition for International Mountain Day 2012.
More than 300 drawings were received from the children, demonstrating difference aspects of life in the highlands of Dagestan, and the best ones were selected for the exhibition in a public library in the republic's capital, Makhachkala.
The competition was organized with the support of Mountain [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountains Through the Eyes of Children]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership member Mountain Territories of Dagestan organized a drawing competition for International Mountain Day 2012. More than 300 drawings were received from the children, demonstrating difference aspects of life in the highlands of Dagestan, and the best ones were selected for the exhibition in a public library in the republic's capital, Makhachkala.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Training course launched on Understanding Upland Watershed Management]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The sixth IPROMO training programme on sustainable mountain development will take place 12-22 July in Ormea, Italy, jointly organized by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Turin.
The course will provide ten days of full immersion learning for 30 selected participants on the importance of upland watershed management [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Second International Conference on Water Resources and Environmental Management (ICWRE 2013)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This conference will convene around the theme &ldquo;Water, Food, Energy Security and Climate Change,&rdquo; and discussions will be organized around sub-themes including: water for sustainable future; global water security; water supply and sanitation; integrated water resources management (IWRM); and environment, water and health. The conference is being organized by Global Institute for Water, Environment, and Health (GIWEH), based in Geneva, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Young Alpine Researcher Award]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Revue de G&eacute;ographie Alpine /Journal of Alpine Research, one of the oldest geographical journals in circulation, is celebrating its centenary in 2013 with a competition for young researchers working in Alpine studies.
PhD, post-doc and master's students are invited to submit scientific papers based on recent research on the Alps, or a context that includes the Alps, such as a [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership members meet in Africa]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[African members of the Mountain Partnership will meet in Kigali, Rwanda on 20 February for a regional meeting on the sustainable development of Africa&rsquo;s mountains.
Entitled Enhancing the Mountain Partnership in Africa for Sustainable Development in African Water Towers, the one-day meeting is taking place ahead of the wider Regional Great Lakes Stakeholders Forum in the Rwandan capital.The main objective of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[North American Mountain Partnership hub created ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership members the Aspen International Mountain Foundation (AIMF) and the Telluride Institute have created a Mountain Partnership regional hub for North America. The aim of the hub is to fill a void in representation for the region and to become a strong partner within the Mountain Partnership global community.&nbsp;
&ldquo;Establishing a Mountain Partnership Hub is an exciting opportunity for Aspen, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Mountain Day celebrations]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 54 - Month 2 - Year 2013

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Our new issue of Peak to Peak wraps up events held across the world in celebration of International Mountain Day. We also look at new Mountain Partnership members and activities, see what members have been working on in Africa, Asia Pacific, Central Asia, Europe and Latin America, and round up recent publications and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Soluciones Prácticas starts work on Apolobamba project]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership member Soluciones Pr&aacute;cticas (Practical Action) has signed an agreement with Asociaci&oacute;n Integral San Antonio de Qutapiqi&ntilde;a to work on a project to strengthen local economic development and natural resource management in the Apolobamba Integrated Management Natural Area of the Bolivian Andes.
Supported by the European Union, the project will last 42 months and aims to increase the income of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New EU regulation protects mountain products ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new European Union regulation protecting mountain products entered into force this month.The regulation on agricultural product quality introduces the optional quality term 'mountain product' and recognizes the necessity of specific labeling.
In particular, the regulation states that the term 'mountain product' is can only be used to describe products intended for human consumption where both the raw materials and the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Mountain Day 2012 - Global celebrations]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pictures from the 2012 celebrations around the world for International Mountain Day, 11 December.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Teaching Resource Kit for Mountain Countries (UNESCO)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This environmental education kit for mountain countries is intended for secondary (and late primary) school teachers and their pupils.
Prepared by UNESCO&rsquo;s Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences under its Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, the kit offers a creative approach to environmental education and is designed to arouse pupils's curiosity, appeal to their artistic sensibilities, and provide a leverage [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNESCO launches Spanish version of mountain education kit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UNESCO has launched a Spanish version of its environmental education kit for mountain countries.The kit, which was launched in English and French last year, is intended for secondary and late primary school teachers and their pupils.Prepared by UNESCO&rsquo;s Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences under its Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, the kit offers a creative approach to environmental [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dam building in the Indian Himalayas threatens biodiversity]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Unprecedented dam building in the Indian Himalayas holds serious consequences for biodiversity and could pose a threat to human lives and livelihoods, a new study has found.
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore, the University of Delhi and the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has predicted that dam-building activity in the region [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MOUNTFOR mountain forest centre to open in Italy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The European Forest Institute and the Edmund Mach Foundation have announced a new mountain forest project centre in northern Italy.
The MOUNTFOR Consortium will be located in San Michele all&rsquo;Adige, Italy, and will aim to provide a scientific basis for the sustainable management of mountain forests. The centre will also help define research agendas to gather information on mountain forest catchment [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New ‘GeoPortal' for Fouta Djallon Highlands]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Fouta Djallon Highlands Integrated Natural Resources Management Project, implemented jointly by the African Union (AU), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), held a regional conference and training workshop in Dakar, Senegal from 10 to 16 December 2012.
The aim of the event was to present the results of the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNEP publication on Kenyan Montane Forests]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UNEP and partners have published a new report, &lsquo;The Role and Contribution of Montane Forests and Related Ecosystem Services to the Kenyan Economy&rsquo;.&nbsp;
The montane forests of Kenya produce direct economic value for its citizens, not only from the production of various timber- and non-timber forest products, but also from a range of regulating ecosystem services that provide an insurance value [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Sustainable mountain development stars in new web TV show]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/166920/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN) is producing and broadcasting InfoAndina TV, a weekly web TV program which airs on Thursdays at 7pm (GMT-5) through the Peruvian La Mula website. 
InfoAndina TV aims to highlight topics related to the sustainable management of resources in mountain ecosystems and reports on what&rsquo;s happening in the Andean region. 
InfoAndina [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New edition of Mountain Research and Development now online]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Mountain Research and Development (volume 32, issue 4) is now online with open access to all articles. Three Mountain Development articles present an approach comparing forest carbon storage with poverty data to ensure environmental and social sustainability of REDD+ interventions in Lao PDR; an analysis of the role of mountain landscapes in sustainable development initiatives in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Eco-Forum of Uzbekistan works for mountain women]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/166919/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Eco-Forum of Uzbekistan is implementing a targeted programme for public participation in the integrated development of mountain areas.
This year it carried out projects to create a sustainable mechanism for educating women on adaptation to climate change, to develop environmental tourism in the Ugam Chatkal National Park, and to set up a network of environmental journalists in Uzbekistan.
It also won [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CEE Himalaya medicinal plant project ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/166918/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[CEE Himalaya is working to strengthen livelihoods through the sustainable use of medicinal plants as part of a UNDP-GEF funded project in Uttarakhand, India.
Working in three medicinal plant conservation sites, the organization is raising awareness about threatened endemic species in the Indian Himalayan region through a multi-stakeholder communication strategy including publications, documentaries, field activities, and training and awareness projects.
It is [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate and insect pests in Eastern Africa ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A four-year research and development project on the impacts of climate change on insect pests in eastern African mountains is underway in Kenya, coordinated by the International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology.
The Climate Change Impacts on Ecosystem Services and Food Security in Eastern Africa (CHIESA) Project 2011&ndash;2015 targets the Afromontane ecosystems for studying eco-physiological and reproductive responses of the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New Regional Initiative for Mountains agreed for the MENA region]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/167188/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Over 15 representatives from the Middle East and North African (MENA) region met in Marrakech this week to discuss the effects of climate change in mountains. After two days of fruitful discussions, they agreed to form a Regional Initiative for Mountains in the MENA Region within the context of the Mountain Partnership. &nbsp;The meeting was organized by the Mountain Partnership [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership now on Facebook]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Partnership now has a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/mountainpartnership.
We'll be posting daily with the latest activities of Mountain Partnership members and with news from the world of sustainable mountain development as well as with publications, photos, facts and more.Please follow the page and feel free to share, comment and post news and photos.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Himalaya wins award ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prakriti&rsquo;s Climate Himalaya initiative has won India&rsquo;s prestigious Manthan eNGO&nbsp; Challenge Award 2012 for its knowledge networking outreach on climate adaptation and mountain development issues in Himalayan region.
The eNGO Challenge Awards recognize NGOs who are using information communication technology and digital media for good governance practices benefiting societies and communities at large.
Prakriti started Climate Himalaya to share knowledge on climate [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership members from Dagestan, Altai, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan celebrate International Mountain Day]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[International Mountain Day 2012, commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the International Year of Mountains, was widely celebrated by Mountain Partnership (MP) members from Central Asia, Altai and Dagestan on December 11 with seed funding support from the Mountain Partnership Secretariat Hub at Mountain Societies Research Centre/University of Central Asia in Bishkek.Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan The Mountain Partnership Secretariat Central Asia hub [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Mountain Day 2012 celebrated in Kyrgyzstan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For International Mountain Day 2012, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat Central Asia hub at the University of Central Asia held a marketplace for sustainable mountain development good practices in order to raise awareness on the roles of mountains to life on earth.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MENA Climate Change and Mountains regional meeting]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A regional meeting on Climate Change and Mountains in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region will take place in Marrakech 16-18 December.
The meeting is the fourth in a series organized by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) in the context of the World Bank Project Strategic Initiative on Mountains and Climate Change (SIMCC).&nbsp;
Similar workshops have taken place in&nbsp; Central [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Doha Climate Summit outcomes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 195 parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved a complex package called &ldquo;The Doha Climate Gateway&rdquo; at December&rsquo;s UN Climate Change Conference - Conference of the Parties (COP 18) in Doha, Qatar. The Doha Gateway, while setting no new targets, marks a second phase with a new commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol to cut [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Mountain Day marks 10th anniversary]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 53 - Month 12 - Year 2012

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Our new issue of the Peak to Peak newsletter is launched on International Mountain Day 2012, a day in which we celebrate and raise awareness about mountains worldwide. Ten years after the International Year of Mountains, the focus of this year&rsquo;s International Mountain Day is to celebrate mountain life and sustainable mountain development, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Verbier World Mountain Forum 2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The World Mountain Forum (WMF) takes place on 11 December and this year is dedicated to the Swiss mountains, and especially to the local region of Val de Bagnes. This year's WMF is divided into two parts, the first focusing on water and energy in the Swiss mountain regions and the second on public-private parternship projects.
Participation at the WMF is [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Mountain Day 2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today is International Mountain Day! We have been marking the day since 2002, when the United Nations first designated 11 December as the date to highlight the importance of sustainable mountain development and to build partnerships that will bring positive change to the world&rsquo;s mountains and highlands.Whether we live at sea level or higher, we are connected to mountains and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountains and Climate Change: A Global Concern ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Whether we live at sea level or higher, we are connected to mountains and affected by them in more ways than we can imagine. Mountains provide most of the world's freshwater, harbour a rich variety of plants and animals, and are home to one in ten people.
Yet, each day, environmental degradation, the consequences of climate change, exploitative mining, armed conflict, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Message for International Mountain Day 2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thomas Hofer, the Interim Coordinator of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, delivers his message for the UN International Mountain Day 2012 (11 December).]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[European Union & ICIMOD launch €11 million Rural Livelihood and Climate Change Adaptation programme in the Himalayan region ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The European Union (EU) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has signed a &euro;11 million agreement for livelihood development and mitigation of climate change impacts through adaptation. Spanning the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) mountain region, this programme will receive a contribution of &euro;10,000,000 from the EU. The five year programme spans Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Second Mountain Day to be held at UNFCCC meet in Doha]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The second annual Mountain Day will take place during this year&rsquo;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 of climate change and to offer solutions to UNFCCC negotiators [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNEP: Methane released from melting ice could push climate past tipping point]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thawing permafrost releases methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, but this has not yet been included in models of the future climate. Permafrost covers nearly a quarter of the northern hemisphere at present and is estimated to contain 1,700 gigatonnes of carbon &ndash; twice the amount currently in the atmosphere. As it thaws, it could push global warming past one of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CIRCLE-2: Workshop on Uncertainty and Climate Change Adaptation]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The CIRCLE-2 Joint Initiative is promoting the Workshop on Uncertainty and Climate Change Adaptation. The Workshop will be conducted in English and will be held in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, in Portugal. The main goals of this event are to promote discussion and contribute with scientific insight. Abstract submissions should respond to the following question: [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MRD 32.3 on Central Asian Mountain Societies in Transition: Now available in Russian]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the first time in the history of Mountain Research and Development, an entire issue has been translated. Translation of Vol 32, No 3 (August 2012) into Russian was made possible and carried out by the University of Central Asia&rsquo;s Mountain Societies Research Centre, who also served as guest editor of this special issue. The issue helps to fill gaps [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain gorilla population grows]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The total world population of mountain gorillas has risen to 880, according to census data released a week ago by the Uganda Wildlife Authority. The critically endangered animals live only in two locations, Bwindi and the Virunga Massif area, which spans parts of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Rwanda. &ldquo;Mountain gorillas are the only great ape experiencing a [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Himalayan Glaciers Will Shrink Despite Steady Climate]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some glaciers of the Himalayas will continue shrinking for many years to come, even if temperatures hold steady, a Brigham Young University geology professor, Summer Rupert, has predicted. Rupper&rsquo;s most conservative findings indicate that even if climate remained steady, almost 10 percent of Bhutan&rsquo;s glaciers will vanish within the next few decades. In addition, the amount of melt water coming [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Multimedia on policy recommendations for SMD in the Andes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[During the Regional Workshop Post-Rio +20 "Sustainable Mountain Development: Building the future we need" held on November 12-14 in Lima, Peru, the Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN) launched a multimedia which containing key information and policy recommendations for sustainable mountain development in the Andes.
The media entitled "The Andes and the future we need" is available online [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CELA-BMI Conference: “Climate Change and Sustainable Development in the Mountain Regions of Bolivia” ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Conference "Climate change and sustainable development in the mountain regions of Bolivia" &nbsp;was held on 21 August 2012, in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. The event was organized by Institute of Socio-Economics, Catholic University (IISEC) and Bolivian Mountain Institute (BMI), as part of the international network CELA Project - Climate Change Technology Transfer Centers in Europe and Latin [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bio-Refineries: ideas for a Sustainable World ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The III Latin American Congress on Biorefinery will be held at the Grand Hotel of the lake resort of Pucon, Chile, between 19 and 21 November 2012. The organization is run by the Technology Development Department, the Center of biotechnology, both from the Concepcion University, and the Science and Technology Department on bioresources at La Frontera University. The Congress is [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why invest in sustainable mountain development? (FAO)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountains cover approximately on-quarter of the word's surface and are home to 12 percent of the human population. By providing freshwater and other key environmental services to more than half of humanity, mountain ecosystem play a crucial role in the development of the planet and contribute significantly to the well-being...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Launch of Sustainable Mountain Development Report and Mountain Research & Development Journal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The University of Central Asia&rsquo;s (UCA) Mountain Societies Research Centre (MSRC) and Mountain Partnership Central Asia Hub launched the Sustainable Mountain Development in Central Asia &ndash; From Rio 1992 to Rio2012 and beyond Report and a special issue of the journal Mountain Research and Development (MRD) on Central Asian Mountain Societies in Transition in Bishkek on 2 November 2012.
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The European ICT Forum for the mountains (EMICT-FORUM 2012) ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The European ICT Forum for the mountains will take place 13-14 November 2012 in Seynod, near Annecy, French Alps. The objective of the EMICT-Forum is to enable the integration of ICT into mountain development strategies, using tools, methods and examples from across Europe. For more information see http://en-emict-forum.typepad.com/emict/]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MRD: Call for papers on "Land Acquisition in Mountains: Implications for Sustainable Development"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 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, how to tackle the challenges involved and learn from good [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Second Mountain Day held at UNFCCC in Doha]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Day 2 &ldquo;Mainstreaming Rio+20 outcomes in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) processes for prosperous, resilient, and sustainable mountain ecosystems and communities&rdquo; was held in Doha, Qatar, on 3 December 2012, on the sidelines of the 2012 UN Climate Change Conference. The strong negative impact of climate change on the life of mountain communities, the role of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Loss of glaciers in Peru increased by up to 35 percent]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The loss of glaciers in Peru has increased from 22 to 27% percentand in some cases up to 35 percent, according to the Minister of Environment of Peru, Manuel Pulgar &ndash; Vidal. He explained that the Peruvian government is working to improve the ability to monitor how deglaciation progresses. This situation is of great relevence for Peru, as the country [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Central Asia's Water Tower]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[According to an analysis published in October 2012, Tien Shan's glaciers have retreated in recent decades due to changing climate conditions, reducing significantly the availability of water for the people of the region. Tien Shan's glaciers play a crucial role in Central Asia's hydrological cycle. An estimated 15 percent of freshwater runoff in Kyrgyzstan comes from glaciers, and the contribution [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Call for participation: 2013 MyCOE / SERVIR Initiative in the Himalayas for Undergraduate and Graduate Students]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The MyCOE / SERVIR Initiative in the Himalayas is a 10-month fellowship program for undergraduate and graduate students who are citizens of eligible countries, currently enrolled in any field at an institution of higher education in an eligible country with ideas and plans for research that address themes of Climate Change in Mountain Area Regions using geographic technologies. Students are [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[University of Central Asia launches Sustainable Mountain Development Report and Mountain Research & Development Journal issue on Central Asian Mountain Societies in Transition]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/163610/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. &ndash; The University of Central Asia&rsquo;s (UCA) Mountain Societies Research Centre (MSRC) and Mountain Partnership Central Asia Hub launched the Sustainable Mountain Development in Central Asia &ndash; From Rio 1992 to Rio2012 and beyond Report and a special issue of the journal Mountain Research and Development (MRD) on Central Asian Mountain Societies in Transition in Bishkek on [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Executive Summary of the Mountain Partnership Task Force (2012)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Task Force meeting took place in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs during 29-31 October 2012. The aim of this event was to take stock of the achievements and challenges experienced by the Mountain Partnership (MP) during the last ten years, during which the attention to mountains and mountain people has considerably increased, and to elaborate the main building [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kyrgyzstan presented the National Environmental Report]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[State Agency on environment protection and forestry of Kyrgyz Republic (SAEP) has presented the National Environmental Report for 2006-2011.
The report was developed by the agency, jointly with Kyrgyz Statistics Office and other state ministries, under the support of UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative&nbsp; to provide access to high-quality information on the state of the environment in Kyrgyzstan.
&nbsp;The report shows up the current [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ECOWAS High level Forum and the First International Off-grid Renewable Energy Conference]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Regional Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), in cooperation with the Global Forum for Sustainable Energy (GSFE) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), are organizing a High Level Forum on the theme: &ldquo;Paving the Way for Sustainable Energy for All in West Africa through Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency&rdquo;. Hosted by the Government of Ghana [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bhutan+10: Gender and Sustainable Mountain Development in a Changing World  ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some 170 policy makers, researchers and development practitioners from 27 countries came together for the government of Bhutan&rsquo;s international conference on gender and sustainable mountain development in October. The conference, Bhutan+10: Gender and Sustainable Mountain Development in a Changing World, came a decade after Bhutan organized a global event entitled Celebrating Mountain Women to focus attention on women in the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World Energy Forum 2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The World Energy Forum, which is being held for the first time outside UN Headquarters in New York, seeks to bring together world leaders, international organizations, financial institutions and other stakeholders to discuss progress towards cleaner, safer and more sustainable energy as well as how to achieve universal access to modern energy services. As 2012 has been designated as the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Eighth Session of the UNECA Committee on Food Security and Sustainable Development (CFSSD-8)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The UN Economic Commission for Africa's Food Security and Sustainable Development programme aims to strengthen the capacity of Member States to design and implement policies and programmes to reinforce linkages between food security, population, environment and human settlements so as to achieve sustainable development. This meeting is also scheduled to serve as the Africa Regional Implementation Meeting (RIM) for CSD-20 [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bhutan+10: Gender and Sustainable Mountain Development in a Changing World]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/141411/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Bhutan+10 is organized by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Bhutan&rsquo;s Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, and the National Commission for Women and Children. The conference will be held in Thimphu, Bhutan, from 15 to 19 October, at the Taj Tashi Hotel and will focus on a comprehensive stock-taking on research and knowledge, as well as opportunities for [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Regional Forum on Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions of Central Asia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The three-day CAMP forum on sustainable mountain development in Central Asia took place on October 4-6, 2012, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Entitled &lsquo;Sustainable Land Management &ndash;up-scaling benefits for rural communities&rsquo;, the forum facilitated knowledge exchange and experience sharing among different stakeholders working at various levels, from local to national, and to the global.
Participants from Central Asia, France, Germany, England, Mongolia, Afghanistan, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ecuador presents National Strategy on Climate Change 2012-2025]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Minister of Environment of Ecuador, Marcela Aqui&ntilde;aga, has presented the National Strategy on Climate Change. The strategy proposes, among other things, to step up efforts to conserve forest resources, mangroves and paramos, supporting and promoting energy efficiency, improving environmental practices and reducing consumption of resources.
Please see complete information in Spanish: http://www.ambiente.gob.ec/?p=6004/se-develo-la-estrategia-nacional-de-cambio-climaticoSource: Ministry of Environment of Ecuador]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/155647/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will be mainly focused on: the status of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits arising from their Utilization; implementation of the Strategic Plan 2011-2020 and progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets; issues [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Mountain Partnership: Looking to the future]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/161452/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Partnership Task Force met in Rome in October at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss the future of the alliance. Around 25 representatives from governments, intergovernmental organizations and civil society spent three days discussing the nature of sustainable mountain development and the role that the Mountain Partnership can play to promote the mountain agenda.
In particular, the Task [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FAO's Current Engagement in Sustainable Mountain Development (FAO)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/164617/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain ecosystems and watersheds are essential for long-term sustainable global development and poverty alleviation and can make an important contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation. Freshwater, rich biodiversity, and other natural resources provided by mountains are vital for the livelihood of billions of people. However, recent environmental, economic, and social developments such as climate change, increasing natural disasters, population [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Producción orgánica de cultivos andinos (FAO)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/164620/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Este manual es el producto de la sistematizaci&oacute;n de los saberes ancestrales que a&uacute;n se practican en el &aacute;rea de la Uni&oacute;n de Organizaciones Campesinas del Norte de Cotopaxi (Ecuador) y de la revisi&oacute;n de otros valiosos trabajos realizados en los Andes ecuatorianos, donde la FAO, contando con la activa participaci&oacute;n de ind&iacute;genas y campesinos de dicho sector, viene ejecutando [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Women in a post-Rio+20 world]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain women will come under the spotlight in October as the government of Bhutan holds an international conference on gender and sustainable mountain development.
The conference, Bhutan+10: Gender and Sustainable Mountain Development in a Changing World, is being organized in the context of the Mountain Partnership with key support from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD).
The event comes a [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Mountain Development, Green Economy and Institutions: From Rio 1992 to Rio 2012 and beyond Global Report (2012) - Final Draft for Rio+20]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161409/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[In 1992, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development &ndash; commonly referred to as &lsquo;Rio 1992&rsquo;&nbsp;or &lsquo;the Rio Earth Summit&rsquo; &ndash; mountains received unexpected high political attention. They were granted a chapter&nbsp;in the &lsquo;Agenda 21&rsquo; as fragile ecosystems that matter for humankind.
In view of the UN Conference&nbsp;Rio+20 &ndash; United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012 it seemed [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNU-WIDER Conference on Climate Change and Development Policy]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/154030/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The UN University (UNU) and World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) Conference on "Climate Change and Development Policy" aims to reflect on how to balance climate and development objectives. The conference will evaluate how research can inform development policy and identify existing knowledge gaps. Researchers and policy makers will be brought together to advance knowledge of development and climate [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World Clean Technology Summit]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/142022/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The World Clean Technology Summit (WCTS) hosted by Pilot International, will be held from 26 to 28 September 2012, in Kampala, Uganda. The Summit will bring together world leaders in renewable energy, exhibitors, investors, scientists and clean technology providers from around the world to engage, interact with each other, exchange business contacts, forge partnerships and lead forward a sustainable future. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Президент Дагестана:"Мы не должны забывать о горной местности"]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/158360/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[19 сентября 2012 года. Дагестан. Президент Дагестана Магомедсалам Магомедов встретился с членами Ассоциации &laquo;Горные территории Дагестана&raquo; в рамках своего рабочего визита в Хунзахский район. В поездке главу республики сопровождали: заместитель председателя правительства РД Ризван Газимагомедов, начальник Управления территориального развития и местного самоуправления президента РД Артур Исрапилов, министр сельского хозяйства РД Сатмар Амиров, министр экономики РД Марат Ильясов, министр здравоохранения РД [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[COFO 2012: World Forest Week]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/157887/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[World leaders at Rio+20 agreed that forests have a significant role to play in addressing many sustainable development challenges.&nbsp; To help fulfil this role, the Committee on Forestry (COFO) 2012 will focus on translating the results of Rio+20 into action and strengthening forestry&rsquo;s many cross-sectoral linkages. In the COFO framework, will take place a series of meetings and events sponsored [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Inter-Religious Dialogue on Climate Change]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/141993/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Inter-Religious Dialogue on Climate Change, organized by the International Network of Engaged Buddhist (INEB), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Sewalanka Foundation, will be held in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, from 23 to 27 September 2012. The Conference is one component of a larger programme identified for Asia and other regions on religion and climate change. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Mountain Partnership]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/157538/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Partnership is a United Nations voluntary alliance of partners dedicated to improving the lives of mountain people and protecting mountain environments around the world.
The partnership addresses the challenges facing mountain regions by tapping the wealth and diversity of resources, knowledge, information and expertise, from and between one another, in order to stimulate concrete initiatives at all levels that [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change adaptation: CAMP Alatoo experience]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/156946/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Public Foundation &lsquo;CAMP Alatoo&rdquo; has been actively engaged in capacity building work for Central Asian communities for increasing their resilience and adaptation to changing climate. Below we provide some highlights for climate change adaptation related activities undertaken in the region:
September 2011- August 2012: Jointly with the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) and Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, САМР [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Адаптация к изменению климата: опыт САМР Алатоо]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/156961/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Общественный фонд &laquo;САМР Алатоо&raquo; активно содействует повышению потенциала стран Центральной Азии по адаптации к изменению климата. С этой целью проводятся различные мероприятия и проекты, в которые вовлекаются как простые фермеры, так и представители государственных и научных учреждений:
САМР Alatoo совместно со Швейцарской научно-исследовательской программой NCCR и Кыргызко-Русско-Славянским Университетом реализовал демонстрационный проект в бассейне реки Сокулук &laquo;Повышение потенциала землепользователей по управлению рисками [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Payment for Ecosystem Services: Update from Central Asia]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/156191/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Devising the country and site specific, on-going sustainable schemes for rewarding people to protect or enhance environmental services beneficial to an even wider population remains as a challenge. Nevertheless, sharing stories of success, trial and errors on application of the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) concept is considered to be a key to succeeding with our endeavors on sustainable use [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Оплата за экосистемные услуги: опыт Центральной Азии]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/156196/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Внедрение&nbsp;&nbsp;практикуемой в различных странах системы оплаты за экосистемные услуги (ПЭУ), трудно назвать успешно реализуемым делом в Центральной Азии, хотя это позволило бы местным сообществам извлекать для себя немало выгод. Тем не менее, распространение существующего опыта лучших практик и внедрение нового опыта, пусть и методом &laquo;проб и ошибок&raquo;, остается ключевым компонентом в деятельности тех организаций, которые работают в области устойчивого использования [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Transitions to Low Carbon Energy Systems: Which Pathways to Energy Access for All?]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/154025/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[This workshop is being organized by the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network and hosted by the University of Sussex, UK. It will reflect on the outcomes of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), and consider how low-carbon development can simultaneously address energy access, poverty reduction, human development and economic growth. The aim of the workshop is [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/151527/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Congress theme will be Nature+, a slogan that captures the fundamental importance of nature and its inherent link to every aspect of people's lives. The Congress will explore many of the most pressing environmental and development challenges from this perspective and how strong and resilient nature is intricately linked to solving these issues, including Nature&amp;Climate, Nature&amp;Livelihoods, Nature&amp;Energy and Nature&amp;Economics.
&nbsp;
More [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[WWF launches fight against wildlife crime]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In response to record poaching rates, WWF today is launching a global campaign calling governments to combat illegal wildlife trade and reduce demand for illicit endangered species products. Demand for ivory, rhino horn and tiger parts from consumer markets in Asia is driving wild populations dangerously close to extinction.
More information: http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?206051/WWF-launches-fight-against-wildlife-crime
&nbsp;
Photo (c)&nbsp;Brittani H.&nbsp;/&nbsp;Flickr]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World Water Council's Youth Delegates]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In order to integrate an intergenerational approach within the institution, the World Water Council is launching a call for interest to create a Youth Task Force, consisting of three members representing organizations addressing youth and water issues, that will be asked to study how to involve youth representatives to a greater extent in the Council&rsquo;s activities, starting with the Council&rsquo;s [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change: “Hunger for Action” ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/142016/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The second Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change, will be held from 3 to 7 September 2012 in Hanoi, Viet Nam. The Conference is co-organized by the Governments of Viet Nam and the Netherlands, in collaboration with other partners, including the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The meeting will [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bhutan: USD 12 Million for Adaptation Programmes]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/155649/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[In what will be the biggest adaptation project to be implemented by Bhutan, the National Environment Commission (NEC) is developing the second phase of the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) which is estimated to cost about USD 12 million. NAPA is a mechanism under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to address the immediate and urgent adaptation [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Intergovernamental Negotiating Committee (INC-Forests) - 3 to 7 September 2012, in Bonn, Germany]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/147607/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[At the FOREST EUROPE Ministerial Conference, held in Oslo from 14 to 16 June 2011, ministers responsible for forests decided to take further international action consisting of the elaboration of a legally binding agreement on forests in Europe and established an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee with the mandate to develop such an agreement. According to the provisions of the Oslo Mandate, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Colombia has new environmental law to the conservation of National Natural Parks and forests]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/154964/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, approved the environmental law &ldquo;Gloria Valencia de Casta&ntilde;o&rdquo; granting tax benefits to contributors who make donations for the conservation of National Natural Parks and the forests of Colombia.
Taxpayers will make donations to the National Parks Unit to fund the conservation of&nbsp; these parks and forests. Donors will be entitled to deduct of the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Международный конкурс для журналистов "Устойчивое управление земельными ресурсами"]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/154834/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Общественная&nbsp; организация САМР Кухистон, при поддержке международной, благотворительной организации ОКСФАМ (OXFAM) Великобритания, приглашает профессиональных журналистов принять участие в международном конкурсе &laquo;Устойчивое управление земельными ресурсами&raquo;.
Журналисты и редакции, желающие принять участие в творческом состязании, присылают оригиналы опубликованных материалов, аудио- и видеозаписи. Если материал выполнен на другом языке, к нему нужно приложить перевод на русском языке. Работы не рецензируются и не возвращаются.
Лучшие материалы [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International competition for journalists "Sustainable Land Management"]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/154835/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Non-governmental organization CAMP&nbsp; Kuhiston, with financial support of the affiliate of Oxfam, UK Association in the Republic of Tajikistan, under its GROW campaign, invites professional journalists to participate in the international competition "Sustainable Land Management".Journalists and editors who wish to participate in the contest, send the original published material, audio and video. If &nbsp;the material is made in another language, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[3rd International Conference on Research for Development (ICRD 2012): Research for Global Transformation]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/142028/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The 3rd ICRD on Research for Global Transformation will be held from 20 to 22 August 2012, in Bern, Switzerland. The Conference is the National Centre of Competence in Research North-South's (NCCR) final major event, and, as such, will be a showcase for what the 12-year programme has achieved since its launch in 2001. The 3rd ICRD will have a [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Запуск Проекта «Тотемное Ожерелье»]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/154444/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Российская НКО &laquo;Фонд устойчивого развития Алтая&raquo; (FSDA) совместно с американской НКО &laquo;Программа Содействия Алтаю&raquo; (AAP)&nbsp; приступили к реализации проекта &laquo;Тотемное Ожерелье&raquo; в июне 2012 года в рамках&nbsp; реализации Российско-американской программы по сотрудничеству институтов гражданского общества (РАПСИГО) при финансовой поддержке Агентства США по международному развитию (АМР США) через Фонд &laquo;Евразия&raquo;. Более подробная информация о программе на: http://www.usrussiacivilsociety.org.
Главной целью проекта является содействие [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[  Totem Necklace Project Launched]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/154445/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Russian NGO &ldquo;Foundation for Sustainable Development of Altai&rdquo; (FSDA) jointly with American NGO &ldquo;Altai Assistance Project Inc.&rdquo; (AAP) launched the Totem Necklace Project in June 2012 in the frame of the US-Russia Civil Society Partnership Program (CSPP) funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through Eurasia Foundation. More about the program at http://www.usrussiacivilsociety.org.
Long-term objective: Promotion of sustainable [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[KYRGYZSTAN: National consultations “Kyrgyzstan – Post-Rio+20: the Future We Want”]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[August 2012. The national consultations &ldquo;Kyrgyzstan - Post-Rio+20: the Future We Want&rdquo; took place at a conference-hall of Ak-Keme hotel, Bishkek.A new format of public discussions &ndash; &ldquo;National Consultations &ndash; is aimed at involving of all concerned groups into discussions and planning of country development and creating a platform for participation in decision-making on transition to sustainable development at national, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Кыргызстан: конференция РИО+20 привела к долгосрочному стратегическому выбору в пользу развития зеленой экономики]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Август 2012, Бишкек &ndash; Прошла первая встреча в рамках Национальных консультаций &laquo;Кыргызстан - пост Рио+20: &laquo;Взгляд в будущее, которое мы хотим&raquo;. В работе приняли участие представители всех групп интересов &ndash; правительства, международных организаций, науки и неправительственного сектора. Встреча организована Министерством экономики и антимонопольной политики КР, совместно с Агентством охраны окружающей среды и лесного хозяйства КР, при поддержке ПРООН.Открывая встречу, Дж. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New members of the Mountain Partnership in Latin America]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Four organizations from Latin America received their membership from the Mountain Partnership. The new members are Instituto Boliviano de la Monta&ntilde;a (The Bolivian Mountain Institute &ndash; BMI) based in La Paz, Bolivia; Fundaci&oacute;n Cordillera Tropical (Foundation Tropical Cordillera) based in Cuenca, Ecuador; Fundaci&oacute;n CoMunidad (Foundation Community) from Panama City and the Red de Agroindustria Rural del Per&uacute; &ndash;REDAR-PER&Uacute; (Rural Agroindustry [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Two months to go for the UNFCCC/CDM International Photo, Video and Podcast Contest 2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The UNFCCC invites you to participate in a contest that aims to select extraordinarily good ways of highlighting the benefits of the Kyoto Protocol&rsquo;s Clean Development Mechanism. The three categories of the contest aim to inspire participants to communicate a complex message in a way that might surprise or even awaken people. They are looking for striking images that showcase [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ten Central African countries agree to improve forest monitoring]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The forests of Africa's Congo Basin, approximately 200 million hectares, are one of the world's largest primary rainforests, second only to the Amazon. The region's forests support the livelihoods of some 60 million people. A new regional initiative will help ten Central African countries to set up advanced national forest monitoring systems, FAO announced on 26 July. The ten countries [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Concordia Rescue Team:  The Alpine Rescue is born]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s born the Alpine Rescue in the Karacorum called &ldquo;Concordia Rescue Team&rdquo;. 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 provided assistance to over 200 individuals and undertaken interventions on [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[43rd Meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 43rd meeting of the Pacific Island Forum (PIF 43) will take place from 27-31 August 2012. The meeting will be preceded by a Smaller Islands States (SIS) Leaders&rsquo; Meeting and Pacific African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States Leaders&rsquo; Meeting. PIF 43 will include a Formal Session, Leaders&rsquo; Retreat, and post-Forum Dialogue Partners&rsquo; Plenary Session. Also at this [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Contributions to policy from scientific research - a view from the mountains]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Research Initiative (TC Americas) and CONDESAN convened a round table discussion, titled &ldquo;Monitoring of change in mountains: how can research feed policy for sustainable development?&rdquo; as part of activities in the Mountain Pavilion during the Rio+20 conference. Invited speakers included representatives from Europe, Asia, and North and South America, who shared experiences and challenges on how to bring [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Water scarcity in the tropical Andes: Population growth outweighs climate change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the Earth&rsquo;s surface warms, climate models predict that the amount of fresh water for human consumption will likely decrease in parts of the globe. While that prospect looms for many cities around the world, a new study finds a more imminent threat to water supplies of cities in the tropical Andes, such as Lima, Peru and Quito, Ecuador. &ldquo;Despite [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MRD: Call for papers on "Water Governance in Mountains"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[2013 will be the International Year of Water Cooperation. For its August 2013 issue, the Mountain Research and Development (MRD) is seeking papers presenting well-validated policy and practice-oriented insights for supporting improved water governance in mountains (Mountain Development section), and papers that analyze water governance, its implications on people and the water system in mountain areas, and related issues from [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Migration and climate change in mountain areas: workshop summary]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The workshop on &ldquo;Migration and climate change in mountain areas&rdquo;, was co-organised by the University of Neuch&acirc;tel (Prof. Etienne Piguet) and the University of Sussex (Prof. Richard Black), held in May 2012. This workshop aimed to bring together both senior and junior scholars with an interest in migration and climate change in mountain areas, covering two of the world&rsquo;s major [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tibetan Glaciers Shrinking Rapidly: comprehensive survey reveals influence of prevailing winds]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 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 Yao Tandong, a glaciologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences&rsquo; [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Endangered species in the Karakorum Mountains: a threat to biodiversity in the Park]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mining, uncontrolled deforestation and hunting. These are the factors that seriously threaten the biodiversity of the Karakorum Mountains home to 10 species of mammals and 12 species of birds in danger of extinction. The alarm has been launched in past days by Muhammad Zafar Khan, head of WWF in Pakistan. "The main problem - said Muhammad Zafar Khan at The [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Water from glaciers for the arid regions: monitoring the Baltoro]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/153017/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[In the arid climate of northern Pakistan, glacial melt water represents nearly all water usable by the population. Monitor the evolution of the Baltoro, is the objective of the project, elaborated by the researchers of Polytechnic and of the University of Milan and coordinated by EvK2Cnr, within the Seed and Paprika projects. Their mission to control the instruments placed on [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Altai members meet Central Asia members]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership members from Altai Republic, Russian Federation, visited the University of Central Asia (UCA) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Chagat Almashev, (1st from the right on the photo), Director of Foundation for Sustainable Development of Altay (FSDA), accompanied by the Altanian prominent &lsquo;kaichi&rsquo; (throat singer) &nbsp;Alexei (1st from the left on photo), met with the Mountain Partnership decentralized Hub for Central [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Алтай встречается с Центральной Азией]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Члены Горного Партнерства из&nbsp;Алтайской Республики посетили Университет Центральной Азии в Бишкеке, Кыргызстан. Чагат Алмашев, директор &nbsp; Фонда Устойчивого Развития Алтая (FSDA) (на фото &nbsp; крайний справа), в сопровождении алтайского мастера гортанного пения (&laquo;кайчи&raquo;) &nbsp; Алексея (крайний слева),&nbsp; встретились с сотрудниками Представительства &nbsp; Горного Партнерства в ЦА (MPCA), а также с &nbsp; сотрудниками Центра Исследований Горных Сообществ (MSRC) при Университете Центральной&nbsp; [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate-Smart Agriculture to Reduce Vulnerability]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Agroforestry is gaining ground as a tool for climate change adaptation and mitigation in Central America, a region where global warming could generate losses equivalent to 19 percent of gross domestic product. A side event of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held from 20 to 22 June, in Rio de Janeiro, addressed this &ldquo;climate-smart&rdquo; agriculture approach that [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[WMO Considers Draft Implementation Plan for Global Framework for Climate Services]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[At its 64th session the Executive Council of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which took place from 25 June to 3 July 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland, was adopted a draft implementation plan for the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS). It aims to increase the availability, accuracy and relevance of climate services to cope with natural and human-induced fluctuations in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Future Andean Community legislation on illegal mining]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[July 10, 2012. Last week, during a meeting held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombia, the countries who are member of the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador) analyzed and agreed on the final text of future community legislation on illegal mining.
Please see the complete information in Spanish on CAN&acute;s website:]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Course on “Understanding and adapting to climate change in mountain areas”, 8-17 July 2012, Italy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Fifth Summer Course, organized by the International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO), the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at FAO and the University of Turin, will run&nbsp; for 10 days, from 8 to 17 July 2012. This year,&nbsp; IPROMO&rsquo;s theme is &ldquo;Understanding and adapting to climate change in mountain areas&rdquo;. The course will be [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Second Forum on EU Outermost Regions]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The European Union (EU) will hold a forum to address major development issues in the EU Outermost Regions (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, R&eacute;union, Saint Martin, the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands) in light of the Europe 2020 Strategy to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Issues to be addressed include: oceans; agriculture modernization; environmental challenges; social challenges; as well [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The future potential of European Mountain forests - Final Conference of the MANFRED project ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Final Conference of the European Project Management Strategies to adapt Alpine Space Forests to Climate Change Risks (MANFRED) will be held on 28 June 2012, on the premises of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome (Italy). The conference, titled &ldquo;The future potential of European Mountain forests: challenges and solutions between Green Economy and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Кыргызстан на Третьей ассамблее Горного Партнерства в РИО+20]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Рио-де-Жанейро, Бразилия. Более 70 представителей правительств горных стран, межправительственных организаций и НПО собрались на Третью Глобальную Встречу Горного Партнерства, которая состоялась 19 июня 2012 года в Горном Павильоне на конференции РИО+20. Горное Партнерство &ndash; это инициатива ООН, которая получила свое начало 10 лет назад в Йоханнесбурге.
Как отметили участники ассамблеи, эта встреча имеет историческое значение, с момента проведения предыдущей восемь лет [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stop talking about the future we want, start acting for the present we need]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[
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Mountain Partnership @ Rio+20
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Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) In his opening remarks at the high-level event on mountains and Rio+20, held at the Mountain Pavilion on 21 June 2012, Nepal's Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai lauded the Mountain Partnership for its advocacy work. "We have to set in motion a new development paradigm that promotes&nbsp;sustainable development&nbsp;in an inclusive manner," said Dr [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The retreating Himalayas: disaster in slow motion]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If the unprecedented rate of glacial retreat in the South Asian region is not checked, countries in the area are likely to turn highly food-insecure. Pakistan&rsquo;s latest Climate Change Policy clearly indicates that freshwater resources in Pakistan are dependent on snow and glacial melting and monsoon rains; all of which are highly sensitive to climate change. Islamabad-based climatologist Arshad H. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rivers will generate a quarter of GDP by 2050, study shows]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The world&rsquo;s 10 most populous river basins (Ganges, Yangtze, Indus, Nile, Huang He Huai He, Niger, Hai, Krishna and the Danube) will be vital for economic growth &ndash; but only if water shortage threats are tackled. Rivers are the very &ldquo;stuff of life&rdquo;, yet billions of people do not have access to a clean and reliable freshwater source. As a [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[President of Peru Ollanta Humala officially opens the Mountain Pavilion]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[
&nbsp;
Mountain Partnership @ Rio+20
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Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) The Mountain Pavilion was officially opened by President of Peru Ollanta Humala on 20 June 2012. "Mountains have a common denominator, and that is sustainable development" President Humala said as he&nbsp;introduced the global spirit of the Mountain Pavilion.&nbsp;
The innovative Pavilion initiative was initiated by Peru as leading organizer. 35 associates contributed to transforming [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rio+20 and Women's Lives: a Cross-generational Dialogue]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Ford Foundation will hold &ldquo;Rio+20 and Women&rsquo;s Lives: a Cross-generational Dialogue&rdquo;, a side event to be held on 20 June 2012, in Rio de Janeiro. At the press briefing, co-sponsored by the Center for Environment and Population (CEP), the Climate Wise Women and the Columbia University Coalition for Sustainable Development, six outstanding global women activists (from Uganda, Nigeria, Cook [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[From the future we want to the future we choose: highlights of the Third Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership at Rio+20]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/150115/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership @ Rio+20
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Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Over 70 representatives of governments, IGOs and NGOs sat together as equals at the Third Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership held on 19 June 2012, in the spirit of the type 2 initiative that was established 10 years ago in Johannesburg by the United Nations. Participants in the meeting filled up the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reinhold Messner delivers exclusive message on mountains for the Mountain Partnership at Rio+20]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[
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Mountain Partnership @ Rio+20
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Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) The Mountain Partnership Secretariat is proud to present a video message delivered by world renowned mountaineer, former politician and writer Reinhold Messner.
What do we talk about when we talk about mountains? And what happens, when men and mountains meet?
This exclusive interview was officially launched at the Third Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Equator Prize Award Ceremony]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/150169/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Equator Prize is awarded biannually to recognize and advance local sustainable development solutions for people, nature and resilient communities. As local and indigenous groups across the world chart a path towards sustainable development, the Equator Prize spotlights 25 local initiatives by honouring them on an international stage. The event, hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will include [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain message to be given at Rio needs to be incorporated in forests, water and other key sectors]]></title>
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Mountain Partnership @ Rio+20
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Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Cross-sectoral integration needs to transcend particular interests to be translated into implementation for poverty reduction and food security in all countries.
This was the message launched at a side event on "Mountain knowledge solutions for improved water, food, energy and environment nexus" held in Rio Centro on 18 June 2012.
A panel of&nbsp; policy makers [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Future We Want: Outcome document adopted at Rio+20 - Mountains (2012)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mountain section of The Future We Want: Outcome document adopted at the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
See the entire document here.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Call for papers:  FLEGT/VPA workshop - Ghana]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The ACP-FLEGT Support Programme in partnership with the Forestry Commission of Ghana and the EFI EU FLEGT Facility, is soliciting papers for a regional workshop on &ldquo;Experiences from the FLEGT/VPA process in West and Central African countries&rdquo;, which will be held from 23 to 25 October 2012 in Accra, Ghana. The major objective of the workshop is to bring together [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Agriculture and Rural Development Day at Rio+20]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 4th Agriculture and Rural Development Day will take place on Monday 18 June 2012 at the Sul Am&eacute;rica Convention Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other international organizations are organizing this full-day side event during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). The event will highlight the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World Environment Day: EvK2CNR disseminates climate education in the schools of Nepal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[What does the word "climate" mean? What are climate change and global warming? How do these things affect our lives, animals, plants and mountains? These are simple, but important questions that school children from the Khumbu Valley in Nepal, will face in the occasion of World Environment Day established by the UN in 1972 during the Stockholm Conference on Environment, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Mountain Pavilion and Rio+20]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Take a look at the Mountain Pavilion and let the photos guide you on a colourful tour through the five thematic stands, the auditorium, the wealth of mountain events and of course, the Third Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Experience Sharing and Planning Workshop on Payment Mechanisms for Ecosystem Goods and Services Provided by Rangelands – Testing and Piloting: Call for Papers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Planning Workshop on Payment Mechanisms for Ecosystem Goods and Services Provided by Rangelands, will be held from 18 to 20 June 2012 at the Chengdu Institute of Biology (CIB) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in Sichuan, China. The workshop is organized by CIB, CAS and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), with the support of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The future we choose: the Global Island Partnership meets the Mountain Partnership]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership @ Rio+20
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Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) A side event on "Sustainable Mountain Development Challenges in Islands: the Global Island Partnership meets the&nbsp;Mountain Partnership"&nbsp;will promote affiliation of mountainous islands stakeholders to the Mountain Partnership. The event, to be held on 22 June 2012 at the Mountain Pavilion&nbsp;on the sidelines of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) is&nbsp;organized [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global governance of sustainable food and agriculture "key" to kick off the future we want]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/149771/</link>
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Mountain Partnership @ Rio+20
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Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)&nbsp;Recognizing the crucial role of the private sector in shaping a new sustainable paradigm, the United Nations Global Compact is the world's largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiative. Under its umbrella, a meeting on &ldquo;Global Governance of Sustainable Food and Agriculture&rdquo; was convened on 16 June 2012 at the Windsor Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global Youth Forum on Mountain Issues and Sustainable Actions]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[
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Mountain Partnership @ Rio+20
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Over 50 youth representing all regions of the globe participated in the Global Youth Forum on Mountain Issues and Sustainable Actions jointly held by ICIMOD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Mountain Partnership at the Mountain Pavilion on 15 June 2012. The Global Youth Forum opened a busy week of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Workshop on Business and Biodiversity]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[LIFE Institute in cooperation with the Convention on Biological Diversity and the National Confederation of Industry in Brazil, will co-host the International Workshop on Business and Biodiversity on 15 June as a parallel event to Rio+20.The long-day event will be conducted as plenary sessions where representatives from the private sector, academia, governments and civil society will present their views on [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Third International Women of the Mountains Conference]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The goals of the 2012 Women of the Mountains International Conference were to discuss pressing issues concerning mountain communities in the Andean regions of Peru and Surrounding countries; to continue traditions of two previous international Conferences, organized by UVU and IUK in Orem, Utah in 2007 and 2011; and to implement a number of decisions of the Orem Declaration of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNESCO Holds Workshop on Impact of Glacier Retreat in Andes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) organized a regional workshop titled "The Impact of Glacier Retreat in the Andes: International Multidisciplinary Network for Adaptation Strategies" under the auspices of its International Hydrological Programme (IHP), and Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme.
The workshop, which took place in Lima, Peru, from 29-30 May 2012, was organized in partnership with the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the Alps matter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Policy brief presented at Rio+20
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The Alps are a coherent mountain region covering 190,568 km2 across eight countries, with a population of 14 million. Their central location in western Europe gives them many important roles for the continent. The Alpine economy is based on a symbiosis of diverse sectors: tourism, services, industry, electricity generation, and agriculture. The territory is highly heterogeneous [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why mountains of the Middle East and North Africa matter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Policy brief presented at Rio+20
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Mountains of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are important for sustainable development in national, regional and global contexts. The goods and key ecosystem services provided by these mountains are vital for the sustainable development. These goods and services are under increasing pressure from urban expansion and environmental changes.
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sink or Swim: Documentary Awards - Call for Entries]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/149021/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[In collaboration with the Goethe Institute, CGIAR, SIDA, and the Thai Film Foundation, IUCN is organizing the Southeast Asian Students Documentary Awards, a competition to encourage the art of documentary film making in the Asia region as a platform to engage on pressing social and environmental issues. The 2012 call for entries invites students in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the Central Asian mountains matter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Policy brief presented at Rio+20
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The Central Asian mountains provide an astonishing array of essential ecosystem goods and services not only to mountain inhabitants but also to people in the lowlands and around the globe. These goods and services include forest products and land for food production; watershed protection; habitat for flora and fauna of local and global significance; the regulation [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the Hindu Kush Himalaya matters ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Policy brief presented at Rio+20
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As the &lsquo;water tower of Asia&rsquo;, the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) mountains are the source of 10 major river systems and provide vital ecosystem goods and services to more than 1.4 billion people. The region includes four global biodiversity hotspots, 488 protected areas, 330 important bird areas, and 60 global eco-regions. Rangelands cover more than 60 [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why mountains of the Southeast Asia and Pacific region matter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Policy brief presented at Rio+20
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Mountains of the Southeast Asia and Pacific (SEAP) region spread across mainland Asia and the island/archipelagic states in the Pacific Ocean. These countries host one of the world&rsquo;s highest and most severely threatened biodiversity and gene pools. Many of the region&rsquo;s indigenous peoples who live in the highlands have developed home-grown and time-tested knowledge and skills [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why mountains matter in global sustainable development]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Policy brief presented at Rio+20
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Mountains provide vital goods and services for the benefit of all humankind, for supporting sustainable development at a global level, and for moving the world towards a greener economy. But provision of these goods and services is at risk. The global community must act &ndash; a new agenda for mountain development is urgently required.
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why mountains matter for North America]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Policy brief presented at Rio+20
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North America&rsquo;s mountains are a primary source of fresh water. Other natural resources, such as coal and natural gas, are pillars of North American energy economies. The recreation and tourism industry &ndash; the lifeblood of many mountain communities &ndash; contributes significant revenues for state and province budgets. And for many, mountains provide solace and a spiritual [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the Andes matter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Policy brief presented at Rio+20
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The Andes, covering 33% of the area of the Andean countries, are vital for the livelihoods of the majority of the region&rsquo;s population and the countries&rsquo; economies. However, increasing pressure, fuelled by growing population numbers, changes in land use, unsustainable exploitation of resources, and climate change, could have far-reaching negative impacts on ecosystem goods and services. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why mountains matter for Meso America]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Policy brief presented at Rio+20
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Mountains in Meso America cover 25.2% of the region and hold a remarkable 12% of the world&rsquo;s biodiversity on only about 2% of the earth&rsquo;s land surface. A total of 86 indigenous ethnic groups occupy 54.2% of the mountain territories. The greatest global threat to sustainable mountain development in the region is climate change. Other threats [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Problems and Prospects of Sustainable Mountain Development in the Russian Federation in the case of the Altai Republic]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This publication is the result of a joint project of Ministry of Economic Development and Investment of the Altai Republic, Foundation for Sustainable Development of Altai (FSDA) and Institute of Sustainable Development (ISD).
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The publication is available in Russian
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Mountains Matter for Africa]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Policy brief presented at Rio+20
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African mountains are highly vulnerable water towers and breadbaskets for the lowlands. Mountain ecosystem services (ES) ensure water-food-energy security and biodiversity conservation and enable sustainable development and poverty eradication at the continent level. In the uncertainty created by climate change, high population growth and land-use change, urgent policy action is needed to promote the enabling conditions [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why mountains matter for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Policy brief presented at Rio+20
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The mountains of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe have played a key social, economic and environmental role in the development of the nations and peoples that have resided there since time immemorial. Being both natural barriers and safe havens not only for people, but also for flora and fauna, the mountains have been instrumental in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bolivian President Evo Morales Promotes Quinoa Against Food Crisis]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Bolivian President Evo Morales praised the quinoa plant, a neglected mountain crop popular among health-conscious foodies, as a way to help solve the global food crisis. "Faced with the global food crisis, the Andean people have various responses and one of them is quinoa," said Morales during a ceremony held at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What women want from Rio+20]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As first recognized twenty years ago, at the UN Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio, women have a vital role in environmental management and development. Their full participation is therefore essential to achieve sustainable development.
UN Women, the newest member of the United Nations family, will be championing four measures to uphold and deepen this commitment at the upcoming [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ICIMOD Annual Report 2011 now released]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Annual Report 2011 gives a brief overview of ICIMOD&rsquo;s activities over the past year including advocating mountain issues in global forums, an international conference on green economy and sustainable mountain development, and important contributions to knowledge of snow and glacier cover and climate change impacts in the region. Along with updates on the continuing growth of ICIMOD&rsquo;s core programmes [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Where Have All The Hummingbirds Gone?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The glacier lily, as it is called, is a tall, willowy plant that graces mountain meadows throughout western North America. It flowers early in spring, when the first bumblebees and hummingbirds appear. But the glacier lily is fast becoming a hothouse flower. In Earth&rsquo;s warming temperatures, its first blooms appear some 17 days earlier than they did in the 1970s, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Locusts, a threat to crops in Africa]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Croplands in Niger and Mali are at &ldquo;imminent risk&rdquo; from desert locust swarms that are moving southward from Algeria and Libya, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned on Tuesday. Locust infestations were first reported in southwest Libya near Ghat in January 2012 and in southeast Algeria. Both Algeria and Libya have been working hard to [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Andean regional project to strengthen the sustainable mountain development ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Project "Strengthening participative management for sustainable development of the Andes" aims to strengthen and to extend the institutional framework of mountain within Andean region, improving participative management of resources in the Andes and sharing the knowledge about several issues that cover them. This project aims to create a regional diagnosis of the mountains situation validated by the countries, with [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reflections to Review: Climate Adaptation in Himalaya]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/147669/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Recognizing the climatic changes and their impacts in Himalayan Mountains, Prakriti, a mountain environment group (and Mountain Partnership&nbsp;member) based in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand, India founded a Pan-Himalayan initiative called &lsquo;Climate Himalaya&rsquo; to divest its efforts in Climate Adaptation and Sustainable Mountain Development.
The initiative was launched formally on 5 June 2010 at IIT Roorkee (Uttarakhand, India) on the occasion of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Renewing commitment to mountain development: Mountain Partnership rendez-vous at Rio+20]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/147234/</link>
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PRESS RELEASE
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6 June 2012&nbsp;/ Rome (Italy) Under the slogan &ldquo;The future we want: mountains as living solutions for development&rdquo;, more than 50 members of the Mountain Partnership will hold their Third Global Meeting in the Mountain Pavilion within the framework of the Rio+20 Conference to be held in Brazil.
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The meeting will take place on Thursday, 19 June, from 16.00 to [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ETFRN News 53: Moving Forward with Forest Governance]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 29 articles in this issue of ETFRN&nbsp;(European Tropical Forest Research Network) News, produced by Tropenbos International, showcase a rich diversity of examples of how forest governance has been addressed in various settings. The current issue brings together experiences from a wide range of forest governance reform initiatives. Some relate to new lessons from well-established approaches to forest governance reform, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Study Finds There's Still Hope For Himalayan Glaciers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Previous fears regarding the Himalayan glacier may have been unduly warranted, according to the results of the HIGHNOON (Adaption to changing water resources availability in northern India with Himalayan glacier retreat and changing monsoon pattern) project. Researchers led by the University of Zurich in Switzerland claim that previous predictions made in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) overstated the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil launches Green Passport Campaign on Eve of World Environment Day]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/146995/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Green Passport initiative has been launched by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the government of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. The campaign, which started ahead of World Environment Day on 5 June, aims to help travelers become more environmentally conscious. UNEP spokesperson Nick Nuttall says thousands of green passports will be distributed to visitors coming to Brazil in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AfDB and WWF to launch Africa Ecological Footprint Report]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The African Development Bank (AfDB) and global conservation group WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) have launched today a joint report on the state of Africa&rsquo;s environment. The Africa Ecological Footprint Report takes stock of the health of Africa&rsquo;s ecosystems, as well as trends in resources use patterns. It also lays out recommendations on implementing green development pathways for Africa. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Altai Republic in Mountain Partnership]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Правительство Республики Алтай подтвердило свою готовность и заинтересованность в продолжении работы в Международном партнерстве по устойчивому развитию горных регионов (Горное Партнерство) при Продовольственной и сельскохозяйственной Организации Объединенных Наций.
Основным координатором Партнёрства от Республики Алтай назначен министр экономического развития и инвестиций РА Александр Алчубаев. Некоммерческая организация "Фонд устойчивого развития Алтая" рекомендована в качестве НКО - члена Горного Партнёрства от Республики Алтай и [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Altai Republic in Mountain Partnership]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Government of Altai Republic confirmed its interest in further development of its activities in SMD, in cooperation with Mountain Partnership Secretariat at FAO.
Mr. Aleksander Alchubaev, the minister of economic &nbsp;development and investments of Altai Republic, was appointed as a focal point of the Mountain Partnership in Altai. &nbsp;The local NGO &lsquo;Fund for Altai sustainable development&rsquo; was recommended for membership [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Voices from the Waters: 7th International Film Festival on Water]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bangalore Film Society, in collaboration with Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, SVARAJ, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), Ithaca College, USA), Christ University, Bangalore, VISTHAR, Charter of Human Responsibilities, SAMVADA, Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy, YWCA Bangalore, Pacific Asia Resource Centre (PARC), Tokyo and Water Journeys - Campaign for Fundamental Right to Water, is organizing the 7th edition of the biggest international film [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High Pamir/Pamir-Alai Mountains: Transborder Legal Institutions]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/146928/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The "Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains" GEF/UNEP/UNU Project is located in the transboundary mountain ecosystem shared between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The project was established to alleviate poverty, control land degradation and develop ways to rehabilitate ecosystems in the Pamirs. The University of New England's (UNE's) Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law is the project's lead [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bonn UN Climate Change meeting delivers progress on key issues]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/146653/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Meeting in Bonn for the first time after the historic UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, governments made progress in ensuring that this year&rsquo;s conference in Doha, at the end of 2012, can take the next essential steps towards meeting the long-term challenge of climate change. Progress was made in the areas of preparing for the amendment of the Kyoto [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ICIMOD Working Paper 2012/4: Towards Developing the Brahmaputra-Salween Landscape : Report on the Experts Regional Consultation for Transboundary Biodiversity Management and Climate Change Adaptation]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/146439/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) new publication, gives a brief overview of the regional consultation facilitated by ICIMOD and the Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, Myanmar, to improve collaboration between China, India, and Myanmar in the Brahmaputra-Salween Landscape. The paper gives highlights of the consultation and technical sessions held in December in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ICIMOD Working Paper 2012/3: Towards Developing the Karakoram-Pamir Landscape : Report of the Regional Consultation to Develop Future Strategic Programme for Biodiversity Management and Climate Change Adaptation]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/146447/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) new publication, gives a brief overview of the regional consultation facilitated by ICIMOD to improve collaboration between China and Pakistan in the Karakoram-Pamir Landscape. The paper gives highlights of the consultation held in December in Kathmandu, Nepal and lists past efforts made for regional collaboration in the Karakoram-Pamir Landscape. It also gives [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malnutrition Increases in South Asia: Cut Climate Change To Cut Hunger!]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/146628/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[According to &ldquo;Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition&rdquo;, a joint report by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), malnutrition is worsening in developing countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and India because of the impacts of climate change - particularly on water resources, a key input for producing [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The UNCSD Rio+20 summit and the future we want: Mountains, living solutions for development]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/peak-to-peak/newsletter-detail/en/c/146418/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 52 - Month 05 - Year 2012
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Mountain goods and services sustain our future and are at the heart of a green economy. During Rio+20, a Mountain Pavilion will showcase this and more. While theMountain Partnershipwill share the building blocks of a forward-looking strategy at its Third Global Meeting
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Mountains generate essential goods which will become increasingly scarce in the 21st [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Workshop: The Impact of Retreating Glaciers in the Andes - Multidisciplinary International Network for Adaptation Strategies]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The workshop, organized by the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) and the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme of UNESCO, with the support of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at FAO, the Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN), the Andean Climate Change Interamerican Observatory Network (ACCION), the Working Group on Snow and Ice (GTNH-PHI) and the Third Pole Environment [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World Environment Day 2012: UNEP calls for action]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[World Environment Day 2012 will be celebrated on 5 June 2012, under the theme "Green Economy: Does it include you?". World Environment Day 2012, hosted by Brazil, will mark the 40th anniversary of the Day. The celebration began in 1972 and has grown to become one of the main vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Voice for change that matters]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Over 200 delegates from Indian eleven mountain States at Gangtok in Sikkim deliberated on mountain issues related to water, livelihoods and Communities &amp; forests of the Indian Himalayan region at the Indian Mountain Initiative summit II, held from 25 to 26 May 2012 at Gangtok, Sikkim in India. In his keynote address, the Director General of ICIMOD Kathmandu Nepal, Dr [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ninth International Banana Forum and First International Congress of Biotechnology and Biodiversity]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The First International Congress of Biotechnology and Biodiversity will be held from 28 to 31 May 2012, at the Hilton Colon Hotel in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The Congress, organized by the Biotechnology Research Center of Ecuador and the Association of Banana Exporters of Ecuador, will be run in parallel with the IX International Banana Forum. Key objectives will be to create [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Solar Desalination System for Arid Land Agriculture]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel, have created a human-made oasis in the Arava Valley, a&nbsp;desert area&nbsp;south of the Dead Sea, Israel, with the successful application of a solar-powered desalination system that provides water for irrigation in arid regions. The solar-powered system uses nanofiltration membranes to treat the local brackish (saline) water, resulting in high-quality [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable land and water resources management – empowering dryland populations]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/146190/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Luc Gnacadja released an important message on water and land sustainable use. The Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water has been met. Between 1990 and 2010, over two billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources, such as [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New Zealand's natural heritage threatened by 20 years of environmental inaction]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/146194/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Less than a month before world leaders meet at a major environmental summit, a WWF&rsquo;s report warns that New Zealand is falling short on important commitments made at the Earth Summit 20 years ago on greenhouse gases, water quality, land and marine biodiversity, fisheries and education for sustainability. &ldquo;While it is important for the government to constructively engage in the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Countries of the Andean Community approved the Andean Environmental Agenda 2012-2016]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/146218/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Countries of the Andean Community (Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia) approved the Andean Environmental Agenda for the period 2012-2016 during the VI Ordinary Meeting of the Andean Council of the Ministers of Environment and Sustainable Development, held on April 10th 2012.
The objective of the Andean Environmental Agenda 2012-2016 is to guide joint activities for the coordination of community policies and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazilians top biodiversity and Rio+20 Awareness Poll]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[While Western Nations scored low in awareness of Rio+20 key areas such as biodiversity, Brazilian consumers came out on top for their awareness and understanding of both biodiversity and the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), according to the results of a survey released last week in S&atilde;o Paulo. The survey, carried out by the Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT), [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bhutan's Tiger Protected Areas: How Safe?]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/143950/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A recent preliminary assessment conducted by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reveals that protected areas for tiger and other threatened species are not necessarily a safe refuge as designed. The preliminary assessment was conducted by examining only three relatively easily measurable factors that may indicate the level of protection and vulnerability. These include legal protection, sufficient enforcement staff capacity to provide [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New South Asia Smart-Agriculture Learning Platform launched]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/143998/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[South Asia is considered one of the most vulnerable regions to climate variability and change due to its high population, high exposure to climatic risks, chronic food insecurity, widespread poverty, and relatively limited adaptive capacity. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), recognizing the region needs to implement elements of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rio+20: Three paragraphs on mountains in the revised Co-Chairs text ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/146128/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The revised Co-Chairs Text is now available. This text will form the basis for the 3rd (additional) round of informal-informal negotiations that will take place in New York next week (29 May &ndash; 2 June 2012).&nbsp;The attached draft of the Rio+20 Outcome document has come down from 335 pages to 80 pages with three paragraphs on Mountains (page 58):
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Mountains 1.&nbsp; [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trees Absorb Less Carbon in Warming World Than Experts Have Assumed]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/143946/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that while trees certainly help counteract rising temperatures, they are absorbing 3.4 percent less carbon than had been assumed in models used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. More CO2 in the atmosphere means more warming. &ldquo;Plants are not able to capitalize on that [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Update from Central Asia: On the way to Rio+20]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/143836/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[22-23 May, 2012. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
&nbsp;A two day national conference &ldquo;Sustainable development of Kyrgyzstan: on the road to RIO+20&rdquo;,&nbsp; with active participation of 120 representatives from government agencies, leading NGOs, business sector, and national and international experts wrapped up&nbsp;on&nbsp;May 23, 2012 with adoption of the Resolution integrating inputs from the multi-stakeholder discussion process for finalization of the draft document &ndash;the Kyrgyz [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Pavilion to be presented by Peru during RIO+20]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/143717/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[With the collaboration of strategic international partners, the Government of Peru is leading the organization of the Mountain Pavilion at Rio+20. The initiative aims to showcase achievements and progress towards sustainable development in mountain regions to representatives of 191 countries and civil society present at the conference. More than 20,000 people are expected to visit the Mountain Pavilion during the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Study Finds Permafrost Thaw: Glacier Melt Releasing Methane]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/143807/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A study, led by scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has found that methane from underground reservoirs is streaming from thawing permafrost and receding glaciers, contributing to the greenhouse gas load in the atmosphere. The study, published online in the journal Nature Geoscience, is the first to document leakage of deep geologic methane from warming permafrost and receding glaciers, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dam Project Threatens a Way of Life in Peru]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/143659/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The indigenous Ashaninkas are now facing a frightening peril: the proposed 2,200-megawatt Pakitzapango hydroelectric dam, which would flood much of the Ene River valley. The project is part of a proposal for as many as five dams that under a 2010 energy agreement would generate more than 6,500 megawatts, primarily for export to neighbouring Brazil. The dams would inundate some [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fourth International African Renewable Energy Alliance (AREA) Conference]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/143938/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[This Conference, organized by the World Future Council and the African Renewable Energy Alliance (AREA) on the theme, &ldquo;Access to Sustainable Renewable Energy in Africa as Prerequisite for the MDGs&rdquo;, will be held from 22 to 26 May 2012, in Como, Italy. As 2012 marks the UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, the AREA will focus on identifying [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Andean countries will implement a plan for the eradication of classical swine fever]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/143725/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Responding to the countries request, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will provide technical assistance to Andean countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru) and Venezuela, to control and eradicate classical swine fever, a disease of great economic and social impact in the Andean region. Endemic of the Andean countries, classical swine fever (CSF) affects domestic pigs and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Peru's coffee growers turn carbon traders to save their farms from climate change]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/143614/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[In the foothills of the Andes, in the Sierra Piura region of Peru, up to 6,600 farmers grow 4,000 tonnes a year of the finest Peruvian Coffee on family plots scattered across the mountainside. However, climate change, with droughts or deluges, threatens the future of Peru's poorest coffee farmers. But Cepicafe (a supplier of the UK's leading ethical hot drinks [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The way to Rio+20: Legal Best Practices on Climate Change Policy]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/143152/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[With Rio+20 negotiations approaching, the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) and the Centre for International Sustainable development Law (CISDL), release their Compendium of Legal Best Practices on Climate Change Policy. The purpose of this Compendium is to highlight the challenges that domestic governments face in implementing their international commitments to climate change policy and the means through which those challenges [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nominations open for the Wangari Maathai Award 2012 ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/143161/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), an international consortium working on international forest issues and chaired by FAO, has launched its inaugural Wangari Maathai Award to honour and commemorate an extraordinary woman who championed forest issues around the world. The USD 20,000 award will be given in recognition of outstanding contributions made by an individual to preserve, restore and sustainably [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[IUCN: Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/143726/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[For over a decade, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has teamed up with Thomson Reuters Foundation to honor environmental journalism. From 15 May to 15 June 2012, journalists and writers across the world are invited to submit an article on an environmental issue, for the IUCN &ndash; Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award. The winner of the 2012 [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Namibia hosts African climate negotiators]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The African Group of Negotiators (AGN) on Climate Change - a platform for African Member States&rsquo; senior officials, experts and negotiators in the United Nations Framework on the Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations - held their preparatory meeting in Windhoek, Namibia, on 17 April 2012. Africa currently faces many challenges associated with the adverse effects of climate change. Namibia&rsquo;s [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The mountain needs to remain a wild place]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Mountains should be left wild. Only in this way we can guarantee the future of alpinism and mountains.&rdquo; This was basically the conclusion of the round table Quo CLIMBis, which took place on Sunday, 6 May 2012 at Castle Firmian. On invitation of the Messner Mountain Museum, world renowned mountaineers met in Bolzano, South Tyrol, to discuss together about the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change adaptation in Africa's "living places"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In order to set in motion the development of an enhanced mountain agenda for Africa, international experts, researchers and journalists from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe met in Mbale, Uganda, for three days (November 2011). Together, they discussed the increasing challenges and opportunities involved in the sustainable [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[El Ayuntamiento de Dénia (España) celebra el Día Internacional de las Montañas 2011 ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Desde que la FAO design&oacute; el 11 de diciembre como D&iacute;a Internacional de las Monta&ntilde;as, la Agenda 21 del Ayuntamiento de D&eacute;nia (Espa&ntilde;a) tom&oacute; la decisi&oacute;n de sumarse a dicha iniciativa con una f&oacute;rmula muy singular. Aprovechando las tecnolog&iacute;as existentes, tanto con m&oacute;viles como de radiofreciencia, se consigui&oacute; con la ayuda del Radio Clun Montg&oacute;, realizar m&aacute;s de 1500 contactos, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shared learning session: study tour of Kyrgyz women group to India]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[
When the Mountain Partnership Central Asia Hub (MPCA) hub was approached by a group of women-entrepreneurs inspired by their 10-day visit to India telling us of their need in sharing their experience and new knowledge, we welcomed the idea by offering one of our knowledge sharing platforms as SLS &ldquo;Shared Learning Session&rdquo; held regularly for MP members at the University [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Training on Rapid Rural Appraisal ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Partnership&nbsp;Central Asia Hub (MPCA) and MSRC/UCA held a one-day introductory training on Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) techniques on April 27, 2012. The objective of the training was to provide participants with an introduction to RRA and its key methodological principles, as well as to familiarize participants with the RRA &ldquo;tool kit&rdquo; of research methods.
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World Renewable Energy Forum & Exhibition (WREF 2012): Em-Powering the World with Renewable Energy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the first time, the American Solar Energy Society&rsquo;s (ASES) National Solar Conference will be held under the same roof with the biennial World Renewable Energy Congress. The combined event is the World Renewable Energy Forum 2012. WREF 2012, organized by the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN), with the support of the International [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bonn Climate Change Conference - May 2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[From 14 to 25 May 2012, governments will embark on the next essential steps required to curb global greenhouse gas emissions and help developing countries adapt to the inevitable effects of climate change, building on the historic results of the Durban Climate Change Conference last year. The Bonn UN Climate Change Conference is being attended by around 3,000 participants from [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Mountain Day 2011: Mountains and forests, "living together"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Coordinator, Olman Serrano, launches a message from the mountains of Central Asia on the occasion of International Mountain Day 2011, falling during the International Year of Forests.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[European Mountain Plant Population Shows Delayed Response to Climate Change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Plant species are expected to respond to a warming climate by moving their ranges pole-wards or up-wards in mountains. A European team of ecologists led by Stefan Dullinger from the Department of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology of the University of Vienna presents a new modelling tool to predict migration of mountain plants which explicitly takes population dynamic processes [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nepal: mountain people “neglected”]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Activists and experts stress how the needs of millions of indigenous mountain people across Nepal are overlooked, imperiling their food security and hindering their economic progress. In assessing the government-administered Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS) of 2003/2004, the authors of a recent study on mountain poverty, noted that 40 percent of the 12 million people living in the mountainous and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Conference on Agriculture and Environment (ICAE)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The ICAE, organized under the theme "Agricultural Production and Economic Growth in Harmony with the Environment: a Shared Vision in the Context of Climate Change", will be held from 9 to 12 May 2012. The Conference will be hosted by the Honduran Government and Zamorano University, with support from the Inter-American Institute on Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Central American [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nepal: Destructive flood hits Pokhara]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A 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 Shailesh declared that the incident was not related to glacial [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Small Island Developing States Consultation on Sustainable Energy for All]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 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&ndash;Challenges, Opportunities and Commitments," the Conference and Roll-out of the Year of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) will include a [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Messner Mountain Museum]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Celebrities are pledging acts of green and the Mountain Partnership has found its first Ambassador in mountaineer, former politician, farmer and explorer Reinhold Messner. &ldquo;Great things occur when men and mountains meet&rdquo;, were we reminded in an exclusive interview that will be launched at the UN Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) in June 2012.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Biomass for Electricity Conference (SB4E)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/142020/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The 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 G&uuml;ssing, Austria on 2-4 May 2012. Acknowledging the readily available and cost effective potential for emission reductions that could be achieved through the large-scale [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Asian glaciers bucking trend of climate change ice melt]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bucking 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 glaciers&rsquo; mass balance (the difference between precipitation gains and losses [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan's first climate change adaptation plan to tackle “mountain tsunamis”]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pakistan, with its 5,218 glaciers and 2420 glacial lakes &ndash; 52 of which have been classified as potentially dangerous &ndash; has launched its first climate change adaptation project aimed at tackling the threats communities face from bursting glacier lakes in the country&rsquo;s northern mountains. The US$ 4.1 million project in Pakistan, managed by Ministry of National Disaster Management in collaboration [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountains in UN: “Harmony with Nature” Event]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To mark International Mother Earth Day, the United Nations General Assembly held an interactive dialogue on harmony with nature on 18 April 2012 at UN Headquarters to examine how human activity has affected the regenerative capacity of the planet. &ldquo;As we get closer to Rio+20, we must keep the Earth in full view when making decisions and taking actions shifting [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountains at Rio+20: the Mountain Pavilion]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Peruvian Government has taken the initiative of organizing a Mountain Pavilion at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20. The Mountain Pavilion will be held at the Athletes&rsquo; Park, between 13 and 24 June 2012, and open to the general public between 13 and 18 June from 11 to&nbsp;19 hours. The Mountain Partnership Secretariat received an official invitation [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Earth Day 2012: Mountains witnesses of global change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 51 - Month 04 - Year 2012
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Earth Day 2012, whose theme was Mobilize The Earth, will serve as a springboard for a final sprint to the UN Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) this June
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On 22 April 2012, more than one billion people around the globe participated in Earth Day 2012 and helped &ldquo;Mobilize the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rio+20: Including regional mountain arrangements in paragraph 94]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Partnership wishes to thank its Friends and Members. Your dedication to sustainable mountain development has strengthened the position of mountains in the Zero Draft of the "Outcome Document". The Mountain Partnership Secretariat encourages negotiators to give recognition to regional mountain arrangements and organizations in the &ldquo;Zero Draft&rdquo;. In order to ensure that regional mountain arrangements are included in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Role of Science Technology and Innovation in Emerging Economies]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The conference will be held on 26-27 April 2012 at New Chelsea Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria, by the Nigerian Association of Science Journalists (NASJ) in collaboration with Science Development Network (SciDev.Net). The aim is to strengthen the relationship between journalists, public relations officers and scientists in order to improve the quality of science reporting in Nigeria. It will also feature a [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Workshop on monitoring the effects of climate change in protected mountain ecosystems]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/141676/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Through REDPARQUES and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat and with support from GIZ, FAO organized a "Workshop on monitoring the effects of climate change on mountain protected ecosystems" together with the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the University for International Cooperation and the Development Bank in Latin America, The workshop was held in Santiago (Chile) from 19 to 21 March 2012. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Experience Sharing and Planning Workshop on Payment Mechanisms for Ecosystem Goods and Services Provided by Rangelands – Testing and Piloting: Call for Papers]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/141679/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Planning Workshop on Payment Mechanisms for Ecosystem Goods and Services Provided by Rangelands, will be held from 18 to 20 Jun 2012 at the Chengdu Institute of Biology (CIB) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in Sichuan, China. The workshop is organized by CIB, CAS and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), with the support of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Forests: the Heart of a Green Economy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Holding a forward-looking side event on 18 June, FAO and other international organizations will join forces with the private sector to make the forest sector more visible at Rio+20. This Rio+20 side event, will highlight the role of forests in enhancing local livelihoods and leading forward product transitions to low-carbon bio-economy among consumers. The programme will illustrate examples of climate-smart [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International conference on sustainable living and innovative solutions: Stockholm+40]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Partnership Forum for Sustainable Development - Stockholm+40 - will be hosted by the Swedish Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, on 23-25 April 2012, to commemorate the first UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972. Stockholm+40 aims to join actors from the international community for a dialogue on sustainable development and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Let's save the World's Forests!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On April 22, we celebrate the next Earth Day. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the planet and demand its protection. Eduardo Rojas&ndash;Briales, the FAO Assistant Director-General (Forestry Department), outlines the strategy of the UN in the vital area of forest resources management. In view of the Rio +20 Conference, Mr Rojas calls on Governments [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Major groups' changes to paragraph 94 of the "Zero Draft" now online!]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/143051/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Recognizing the importance of civil society, the Rio+20 Bureau&rsquo;s co-chair Ambassador Kim invited Major Groups to submit their amendments to the Rio+20 "Zero draft" outcome at the Bureau meeting with Major groups on 27 January 2012. A series of e-consultations has been promoted by the Mountain Partnership on a global scale. Your active contribution is now reflected in the amendments [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change scientists look back 3 million years to look to the future]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To figure out what global warming could bring to Earth, scientists are looking 3 million years into the past. They have concluded that it is Pliocene Epoch, a warm and wet period between 3.15 million and 2.85 million years ago, the slice of time in which the world probably looked and felt much as it does now. Global temperatures and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Virtual Congress on Green Economy and Socio-productive Inclusion: The Role of Family Agriculture]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134948/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Virtual Congress on Green Economy and Socio-productive Inclusion, will be held up to the 30th April. The Virtual Congress is organized by Brazil's Ministry of Agricultural Development, with support from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and it is available at the follow link: [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Tropical Andes]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/142380/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The threats to the unique biodiversity of the Tropical Andes, from global climate change and human population growth lead to a new publication, &ldquo;Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Tropical Andes&rdquo;, edited by Sebastian K. Herzog, Rodney Martinez, Peter M. J&oslash;rgensen, Holm Tiessen. The volume, a product of the project &ldquo;An assessment of research and institutional needs to cope with [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Matterhorn disintegrating in the face of global warming]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The University of Zurich reported the negative effects climate change is having on the Matterhorn in the Geophysical Research journal. The 14,690 foot high Matterhorn sits on the border between Switzerland and Italy and is one of the most majestic and best known and most inspirational mountains in the world. The study found that not only are the Matterhorn&rsquo;s glaciers [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[EEA Report No 1/2012: Towards efficient use of water resources in Europe]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134916/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[According to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA), Europe needs to redouble efforts in using water more efficiently to avoid undermining its economy. The report highlights how inefficiently using water impacts hard on the resources needed by ecosystems and people, both vital assets for European productivity and security. For example some estimates calculate that approximately a quarter [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[USD 100,000 Patel Grand Challenge: deadline extended to 25 May 2012]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134705/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The USF Patel School of Global Sustainability launched the Patel Grand Challenge at the International Water Association's Development Congress in Malaysia in November 2011. It is a challenge to inventors in developing nations to create a low-cost and easy-to-use water purification device that could save millions from the threats of contaminated drinking water. Due to numerous deadline extension requests, the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indo-French project to study effects of climate change on farming]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134568/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[On 9 April, the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (CEFIPRA) launched a multi-disciplinary Indo-French research project titled &lsquo;Adaptation of Irrigated Agriculture to Climate Change (AICHA). The study aims at developing an integrated model for analysing the impact of climate change on ground water-irrigated agriculture and for identifying available actions for climate-smart agriculture in South India. Sekhar Muddu, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fourth IDSAsr Seminar: The Water Energy and Food Security]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The fourth seminar of Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies Society (IDSAsr), will be held from 2 to 4 November 2012, at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. Recognizing a clear need for new approaches addressing the inter-connections within the water, energy and food security nexus, the seminar will focus on identifying enabling conditions which may facilitate the achievement [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[10,000 simulations show warming range of 1.4-3 degrees by 2050]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A study project running almost 10,000 climate simulations on volunteers&rsquo; home computers, using a complex atmosphere-ocean climate model, has found that a global warming of 3 degrees Celsius by 2050 is &lsquo;equally plausible&rsquo; as a rise of 1.4 degrees, if emissions continue unabated. The forecast range is derived from models that accurately reproduce observed temperature changes over the last 50 [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A new system of waste disposal in the Everest Valley]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The EvK2Cnr committee, in partnership with Eco Himal and Sagarmantha Pollution Control Committee, is already working to solve the "Everest waste issue". One of the first results will be the installation of a new waste management facility in Namche Bazaar, Khumbu Valley, Nepal. In open huge holes nearby several villages, right now, the climbing expeditions waste are burning in the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Earth Debate: Food Security – How Do We Feed 9 Billion People in 2050?]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134488/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Earth Debates, organized by the Museum of Natural History of the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future and the British Council, will be webcast live from the UK's MSN, on 9 April. A panel of leading experts chaired by Richard Black, the BBC's environment correspondent, will tackle key issues at the heart of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Conference of Mountain Countries on Climate Change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[International Conference of Mountain Countries (5-6 April 2012, Nepal)Climate science 'needs greater social science input'"The climate isn't the only thing changing," said Michael Glantz, director of the Consortium of Capacity Building at the University of Colorado, at the International Conference of Mountain Countries held from 5 to 6 April 2012 in Kathmandu (Nepal). Dr Glantz noted that social behaviours also [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Electronic Forum: Adaptation to climate changes in Amazonian Andes - from 16 to 20 April 2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Electronic Forum &ldquo;Adaptation to climate changes in Amazonian Andes&rdquo; will be held from 16 to 20 April 2012, by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), CARE Per&uacute;, the Consortium for the Sustainable Development of Andean Ecoregion (CONDENSAN), the General Secretariat of the Andean Community (SGCAN) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The Forum aims to [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Third Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership at Rio+20!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The third Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership will take place in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on Tuesday, 19 June 2012, on the sidelines of the UNCSD Rio+20 summit.The future we want: mountains as living solutions for developmentWe need to act together for the future we want. At our Global Meeting, the new five-year strategy of the Mountain Partnership will [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountains, a priority for a planet under pressure and for Switzerland]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountains make up two thirds of Switzerland&rsquo;s surface area. They played a decisive role in creating the national identity of Switzerland and also &ndash; owing to Alpine tourist destinations and the watchmaking industry based in the Jura mountains &ndash; its worldwide reputation. Up to now Switzerland has successfully integrated its mountain regions in the political and economic development of the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Yosemite's Alpine Chipmunks Take Genetic Hit from Climate Change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Global warming has forced alpine chipmunks in Yosemite to higher ground, prompting a startling decline in the species&rsquo; genetic diversity, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The novel study, recently appeared in the online publication of the journal Nature Climate Change, also shows that the genetic erosion occurred in the relatively short span [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Technical Experts – REDD+ and Climate Change Adaptation – application deadline: 31 March 2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tetra Tech ARD, an international development consulting firm based in Burlington, Vermont and Washington, D.C., is currently accepting expressions of interest from qualified regional and local technical experts for anticipated USAID-funded climate change adaptation and REDD+ projects in South East Asia and in Latin America and the Caribbean. The projects will focus on policy and implementation of efforts to reduce [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The water-energy-food nexus: why mountains matter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Together with the Government of Nepal and ICIMOD, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat has organized a side event on "The water-energy-food nexus: why mountains matter". The side event will take place on Monday 26 March 2012 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, back to back with the 3rd Intersessional meeting. High-level representatives from Switzerland, Italy, Ethiopia and Peru will [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CIPRA received the Dutch sustainability award]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA) was awarded the 2012 Sustainability Organization of the Year by the Royal Dutch Mountaineering and Climbing Club (NKVB). In an on-line ballot, Dutch mountaineers from NKVB, the biggest mountaineering club outside of the Alps, voted CIPRA. CIPRA is a non-governmental umbrella organization including more than 100 associations and organizations from [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The water-energy-food nexus: why mountains matter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Together with the Government of Nepal and ICIMOD, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat has organized a side event on "The water-energy-food nexus: why mountains matter". The side event will take place on Monday 26 March 2012 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, back to back with the 3rd Intersessional meeting. High-level representatives from Switzerland, Italy, Ethiopia and Peru will [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Paragraph 94 on Mountains, "a model for others"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[At the recent UNCSD Informal consultations, delegates continued their first reading of Section V of the &ldquo;Zero Draft&rdquo; (Framework for Action and Follow-up). Below is IISD&rsquo;s press coverage on the discussions on paragraph 94 on Mountains (Thursday, 22 March 2012):Mountains: SWITZERLAND proposed text on, inter alia, integration of mountain-specific strategies in national sustainable development strategies and poverty reduction plans and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global Change and the World's Mountains: Supplement Issue of Mountain Research and Development]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Research and Development is pleased to announce the publication of a Supplement Issue containing keynote papers, a synthesis paper and policy papers that emerged from the 2010 &ldquo;Global Change and the World&rsquo;s Mountains&rdquo; conference, which took place in Perth, Scotland, from 26 to 30 September 2011. The peer-reviewed keynote papers address issues ranging from mountains as a global common [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[1 February 2012, India: Enhancing Participation of Women in the Green Economy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On February 1, 2012, Earth Day Network, in partnership with The Energy Resources Institute (TERI), will host a day-long WAGE forum in Delhi, India. To accelerate and provide the new thinking and creative power for a global post-carbon economy, Earth Day Network is engaging women business, government and NGO leaders in its &ldquo;Women and the Green Economy&rdquo; (WAGE&reg;) Campaign. WAGE&reg; [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World Water Day 2012: Water, mountains' "blue gold"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s our planet&rsquo;s most precious resource and our cities our powered by it: it&rsquo;s water! And water comes from mountains.&nbsp; It flows from the watersheds at higher altitudes creating life along its course, all the way down to the river deltas.&nbsp; The sustainable management of water is the single most important priority for all mountain regions.&nbsp; Water is a true [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Water, mountains' “blue gold”]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s our planet&rsquo;s most precious resource and our cities are powered by it: it&rsquo;s water! And water comes from mountains. It flows from the watersheds at higher altitudes creating life along its course, all the way down to the river deltas. The sustainable management of water is the single most important priority for all mountain regions. Water is a true [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2nd Nordic International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation, Helsinki, 29-31 August 2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Second Nordic International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation: "Adaptation Research Meets Adaptation Decision-Making" will be held from 29 to 31 August 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. The conference is jointly organized by the NordForsk TFI Network initiative on Effect Studies and the Adaptation to Climate Change network (NORDCLAD-Net and NONAM), with support of the Swedish Mistra-SWECIA research programme, the Academy [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gender and Climate - Launch of FAO and CGIAR Training Guide]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130383/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Training Guide &ldquo;Gender and Climate Change Research in Agriculture and Food Security for Rural Development&rdquo; is now available online. The guide was jointly developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The manual provides users with resources and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[IUCN engaging local communities to restore water flow in the Himalayan region]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Across the Himalayan region in India springs are drying up, owing to changes in precipitation patterns and decline of the watershed&rsquo;s forests. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with the support of mobile phone company Nokia, launched a project to restore water flow in the Balkila watershed, in India's Uttarakhand State. The Forest Department of the Uttarakhand State [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA["Himalaya Water Tower" Highscrapers to solve access to water?]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130473/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Chinese designer/engineers Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao and Dongbai Song have put forth a tantalizing proposal that combines human scientific ingenuity with a practical, prescient vision for a sustainable future. The approximately 55,000 icy glaciers in the Himalayan region hold 40 percent of the world&rsquo;s fresh water and together act as the main water source for 7 of the world&rsquo;s great [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Monitoring the Effects of Climate Change in Protected Ecosystems - 19, 20 and 21 March 2012, Santiago de Chile]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Workshop &ldquo;Monitoring the Effects of Climate Change in Protected Ecosystems&rdquo; is going to take place on 19, 20 and 21 March 2012 at the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Santiago de Chile. Ranging from Mexico to the Land of Fire in Argentina, the mountains in Latin America are home to millions of people, living [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[European Mountain Convention - 2-4 October 2012, Chambery, France]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The European Mountain Convention will take place this year from 2 to 4 October 2012 in Chambery, France. The Convention is organized by the European Association for Mountain Areas (Euromontana) in cooperation with the French region Rh&ocirc;ne Alpes. The three-day conference will feature discussions on several topics related to mountain development and people. The focus of this year will be [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China signs hydropower expertise deal with Nepal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[China has signed a US$1.6 billion agreement to develop the 760-megawatt (MW) West Seti Project hydropower plant in Nepal. The deal marks the Asian giant's entry into a sector in the Himalayan nation &mdash; water and power &mdash; that has been dominated by India for years. Water-rich Nepal has an estimated 83,000MW of hydropower potential, but actual production is only [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly Resolution: Sustainable Mountain Development (2012)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on Sustainable mountain development at the 66th Session. A/RES/66/205]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China Focus: Nature-Based Solutions To Climate Change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[With the world&acute;s largest population and second largest economy, China is the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, but also the emerging leader in the use and development of clean energy technology. China is arguably the most important country to successfully address climate change. In the face of unparalleled economic growth China&acute;s Mega Diverse ecosystems are increasingly vulnerable. At the same [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[If Cutting Carbon Emissions Isn't Working, What's Next?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[What if it is too late to save the climate by cutting greenhouse gas emissions? What if the amount of carbon dioxide already added to the atmosphere by human activity is so great that it is going to produce big temperature changes no matter what, with big shifts in rainfall and in ocean chemistry? Options remain, according to a new [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Asia needs $40 billion a year for 'climate proofing': Asian Development Bank]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130492/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Asia-Pacific region needs to spend about $40 billion a year to "climate proof" its economies against the impact of global warming, Asian Development Bank vice president Bindu Lohani said at the Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum on Monday. The Forum in Bangkok was cancelled last year after Thailand suffered its worst floods in half a century, which killed more [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Countdown has started: 100 days to Rio+20]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130493/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, described by UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon as a "once in a life time opportunity" will take place in 100 days. It is the chance to make a difference and realize &ldquo;The Future We Want&rdquo;, theme of the conference, in particular focusing on the creation of a Green Economy in the context of sustainable [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Retreating Ice Leaves Glacial Species On The Rocks]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130709/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The rapid retreat of glaciers is one of the most visible signs of Earth&rsquo;s changing climate, but the disappearance of the ice is altering far more than physical landscape. An analysis suggests that species that live in the streams and rivers that flow from melting glaciers could begin to vanish when just half of the glacial cover in a region [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The gender dimensions of climate change]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130711/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[By empowering women, practical and sustainable climate change solutions can be found while contributing to the transformation of gender inequalities. BRIDGE has recently finished a two year Gender and Climate Change Programme, in collaboration with partners based in Paraguay, Nigeria, Kenya, India, Colombia and Germany &ndash; and a global community of practice. The key output, a Cutting Edge Pack, shows [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rio+20 negotiations: Major groups' comments on section III through V of the “Zero Draft”]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/142725/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Recognizing the importance of civil society, the Rio+20 Bureau&rsquo;s cochair Ambassador Kim invited Major Groups to submit their amendments to the Rio+20 "Zero draft" outcome at the Bureau meeting with Major groups on 27 January 2012. A series of e-consultations has been promoted by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat on a global scale. Your active contribution is now reflected in the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rio+20 negotiations Paragraph 94 on Mountains “a model for others”]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[At the recent UNCSD Informal consultations, delegates continued their first reading of Section V of the &ldquo;Zero Draft&rdquo; (Framework for Action and Follow-up). Below is IISD&rsquo;s press coverage on the discussions on paragraph 94on Mountains (Thursday, 22 March 2012). Switzerland proposed text on, inter alia, integration of mountain specific strategies in national sustainable development strategies and poverty reduction plans and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[COMUNIS conference – 8 March 2012 – EURAC research, Bolzano]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130712/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Final Conference of the &ldquo;COMUNIS&rdquo; Project will take place on 8 March 2012 in Bolzano (Italy), on the premises of the EURAC Convention Centre. The event is organized by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea in cooperation with the institute for Timber Plants and the Environment, and with the logistic support of EURAC research. Having [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountains, from "water towers" to towers of life]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/peak-to-peak/newsletter-detail/en/c/134841/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 50 - Month 03 - Year 2012
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It&rsquo;s our planet&rsquo;s most precious resource and our cities are powered by it: it&rsquo;s water! And water comes from mountains.
On 22 March 2012, the globe celebrated World Water Day. But how often do we really think about this marvel called water? Life without water is impossible. A truism so often used that its [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[City of Aspen (US) moved into warmer climate zone]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[New national climate designations released this month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirm that winter is getting warmer around the city of Aspen. The mountain city of Aspen, member of the Mountain Partnership since 2010 is, for the first time, in the same climate zone of warmer and lower-elevation towns. Auden Schendler, vice president of sustainability at the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNEP to implement EUR 2.3 million project rehabilitating the water towers of Kenya]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new three-year intervention to rehabilitate the Northern Mau Forest at the cost of EUR 2.3 million is set to deliver multiple benefits for Kenya and the region. The Mau Forest isn&rsquo;t just the largest mountain forest in Kenya. It is the largest in all of Eastern Africa. In Kenya, it is also the largest water catchment area, meaning it [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNEP to implement EUR 2.3 million project rehabilitating the water towers of Kenya]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 49 - Month 02 - Year 2012
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A new three-year intervention to rehabilitate the Northern Mau Forest at the cost of EUR 2.3 million is set to deliver multiple benefits for Kenya and the region
The Mau Forest isn&rsquo;t just the largest mountain forest in Kenya. It is the largest in all of Eastern Africa. In Kenya, it is also the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Turkey's First Wildlife Corridor Links Bear, Wolf and Lynx Populations to the Caucasus Forests]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Turkey&rsquo;s first wildlife corridor is the biggest active landscape conservation project ever undertaken in Turkey and the reforestation of the corridor will take close to a decade. The area of the corridor is bigger than the protected area it is connecting, a rarity in corridor projects. If the wildlife corridor were a national park, it would be the 15th largest [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why mountains matter in a post Rio+20 world: Mountain Partnership Spring meetings (27-29 February 2012)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Key Mountain Partnership members directly involved in Rio+20 met in Rome from 27-29 February 2012 to identify mountain assets for a sustainable future. When it comes to green growth and sustainable development, two themes at the heart of the Rio+20 discussions, participants agreed that mountains provide a portfolio of opportunities: clean energy, sustainable forest management, sustainable tourism, responsible industrial development [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change may push Andean species skyward]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new study led by researchers at Duke University has identified and mapped hundreds of endemic plant and animal species across 17,000 miles of east-facing Andean uplift, a section ranging through Bolivia and Peru. It found that only 20 percent of areas with the highest levels of biodiversity are protected by government regulations. Warming temperatures have accelerated a process of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can We Construct Urban Communities That Conserve Biodiversity?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the first time in our history, more people live in urban vs. rural areas and humans continue to move into cities. Cities have huge impacts on our natural resources. Urban dwellers consume vast amounts of energy, produce waste, and alter landscapes to the point where native plant and animal populations decline precipitously. As cities grow, people have pondered -- [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare wheat from the mountains of Tajikistan at Arctic seed vault]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130719/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Rare wheat collected from the &ldquo;Roof of the World&rdquo; in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan; amaranth, barley and once-forgotten forage crops that could sustain livestock in these climatestressed times are among the seed samples arriving this week for the fourth birthday of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV). The Global Crop Diversity Trust maintains the seed vault, in partnership with [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conference: Planet Under Pressure 2012 - 26-29 March 2012, London, UK]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 2012 international Planet Under Pressure conference will take place from 26 to 29 March 2012 in London, UK. The conference aims to provide a comprehensive and scientific update on the pressure that planet Earth is now under. Global sustainability scientists, decision-makers in policy, development, business and the wider non-government sector will discuss solutions at all scales to move societies [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conference on Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountain Areas - Stuttgart, Germany, 16-18 April 2012]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130724/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A Conference on Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountain Areas will take place from 16 to 18 April 2012 at the Hohenheim University in Stuttgart, Germany. The conference is organized by the Uplands Program, with funds from the German Research Foundation. The conference will focus on a number of themes related to sustainable land use and rural development: [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New publication online - Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The book &ldquo;Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa&rdquo; has been recently published and is available online for free download. This publication collects research, methodological innovation, and lessons learned in the African Highlands Initiative (AHI), an eco-regional research-for-development program operating in the eastern African highlands. The editors summarized the experiences of farmers, research and development workers and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Are the world's glaciers threatened by climate change?]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130726/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A surprising finding comes from a study published in Nature, which claims that the world's largest mountain chain, stretching from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, has lost no ice between 2003 and 2010. The study is the first to survey all the world's icecaps and glaciers and is based on satellite data. More [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amendments to para 94 of the "Zero Draft" now online!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Recognizing the importance of civil society, the Rio+20 Bureau&rsquo;s co-chair Ambassador Kim invited Major Groups to submit their amendments to the Rio+20 "Zero draft" outcome at the Bureau meeting with Major groups on 27 January 2012.&nbsp; A&nbsp;series of e-consultations has been&nbsp;promoted by the Mountain Partnership on a global scale. Your active contribution is now reflected in the amendments to paragraph [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Help shape the profile of mountains in the "Zero Draft" ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134498/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The 9 Major Groups of Agenda 21 (Business &amp; Industry, Children &amp; Youth, Farmers, Indigenous Peoples, Local Authorities, NGOs, Scientific &amp; Technological Community, Women, Workers &amp; Trade Union) can give their comments on the Text of the Zero Draft of the Outcome Document. Comments can still be given on&nbsp;the&nbsp;entire document. The deadline for comment submission has been extended to 29 [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Adaptation to Climate Change with a Focus on Rural Areas and India]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Indo-German project Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Areas of India (CCA RAI, www.ccarai.org), funded by GIZ, is pleased to announce the launch of the book &ldquo;Adaptation to Climate Change with a Focus on Rural Areas and India&ldquo;. The publication provides an overview of the main issues in current adaptation discussions and suggests adaptation options in six different fields related [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[USAID funds project to study water reosurces in Asia mountains]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A University of Colorado Boulder team is partnering with the United States Agency for International Development to assess snow and glacier contributions to water resources originating in the high mountains of Asia that straddle 10 countries. The four-year study aims to provide a comprehensive and systematic assessment of freshwater resources in the so-called "High Asia" region, which encompasses five mountain [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Young Scientists Award - Best work on policy relevant to Alpine issues]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130730/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Alps are a &ldquo;living space in change&rdquo;. In order to manage and develop natural and human resources in a sustainable way, creativity is fundamental both in daily life as well as in science and research. The Alpine Convention will award young scientists for their work (diploma, dissertation, and master&rsquo;s thesis) on topics closely related to the objects of the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Side event at Delhi Sustainable Development Summit calls for a new agenda to sustain mountains as global commons]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130731/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[More than 100 participants from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region called for a new global mountain agenda in a special event held at the 12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit. Focusing on "Sustainable Mountain Development in the Context of Rio+20", the event was held on 3 February 2012. The meeting participants included environment ministers, policy makers, development experts and scientists. Dr [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[One day in mountains: Central Asia public to Rio+20 processes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The documentary 'One day in mountains' was produced under the regional project 'Sensitizing Central Asia public to Rio+20 processes' by national NGOs, Mountain Partnership members in Central Asia: CAMP Kuhiston, Tajikistan, ECOFORUM, Uzbekistan and Alliance of Mountain Communities in Central Asia.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Innovation in tackling climate change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sharing research-based knowledge and promoting innovation are unprecedentedly critical for effective climate change mitigation and adaptation programmes worldwide, particularly in developing countries. This was the focus of the two-day conference (23-24 January) convened in Kathmandu by the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC), supported by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Scientists can significantly help advance policies to promote best [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Landscape Blog launched on 30 January 2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As part of the three-year collaborative Landscape for People, Food and Nature Initiative, the new Landscapes Blog has now been launched. The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative, which officially commenced in November 2011, aims to scale up successful strategies for integrated landscape management that simultaneously support, improve food security, and conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services. The blog includes [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ban Ki Moon on the perspectives for Rio+20 at the World Economic Forum]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The World Economic Forum (WEF) held its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, from 25-29 January 2012, gathering industry, business, government and other world leaders to discuss current issues. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon participated in two panels, on ending energy poverty and on the perspectives for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), warning &ldquo;we cannot build a green [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[System of Rice Intensification (SRI) increases high-altitude rice yields in Madagascar]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The SRI method was developed in the 1980s by the French Jesuit priest Henri de Laulani&eacute;. Challenging traditional rice production, SRI farmers transplant young seedlings with greater spacing on soil that is moist but not flooded. Proponents of SRI claim this system uses 25-50 percent less water, requires 80-90 percent fewer seeds, and can sometimes double or even triple the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[WWF's top 2012 endangered species]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The numbers of mountain gorillas, Sumatran orangutans, wild tigers and snow leopards are gradually declining - with hunting and habitat loss just some of the reasons that these animals are endangered. World Wildlife Fund has put together a top 10 list of endangered species to be on the look-out for in 2012. Help protect their future by visiting www.WorldWildlife.org/how.
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Need to Rewrite the Mountain Perspective]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fragile, remote and marginal. These three adjectives are commonly used to address mountains in the so-called &lsquo;mountain perspective&rsquo;, said Indian development analyst Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma on chimalaya.org. For two decades, this self-deprecating approach has been the leitmotif of most research/development on mountain issues in the Himalayan region. And what if this narrative would be rephrased with positive expressions such as [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[40 years of UNESCO World Heritage Convention]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UNESCO is one of our most prestigious members, and we have asked Marc Patry from the World Heritage Centre what the Convention envisages for mountains. How is UNESCO ensuring protection of mountain sites? Could you highlight any mountain-related initiatives? The World Heritage Convention was adopted in 1972. We have 188 countries that have ratified the Convention. Although we have a [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[40 years of UNESCO World Heritage Convention]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 48 - Month 01 - Year 2012
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This year marks the 40th anniversary of UNESCO World Heritage Convention. We have asked Marc Patry from the World Heritage Centre what the Convention envisages for mountains .
How is UNESCO ensuring protection of mountain sites? Could you highlight any mountain-related initiatives?
The World Heritage Convention was adopted in 1972. We have 198 countries that [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Nimba, Cote d'Ivoire awarded emergency relief grant]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The C&ocirc;te d&rsquo;Ivoire component of the transboundary Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, inscribed onto the list of UNESCO World Heritage in Danger, has been awarded a Rapid Response Facility (RRF) small grant. This site has a unique geography, rising above the surrounding savannah and consisting of dense forest and mountain pastures. Important fauna here includes endemic viviparous toad species and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India: Climate change takes malaria to the hills]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Due to climate change, malaria and other diseases may shift to higher altitudes, says a draft Action Plan for Climate Change recently compiled in India. Warming climate and variable precipitation offer newer sites of breeding to vectors, pathogens, and bacteria. Plasmodium vivax (Pv) and Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) are the main pathogens responsible for malaria and the positivity rate of the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China: Forest fire at the foot of the Dongshan Mountain]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Forest fire spread on Thursday 26 January in Lijiang city, a UNESCO Heritage Site at the foot of the famous Dongshan Mountain, in southwest China's Yunnan Province. As of Thursday at 4 p.m., the fire had engulfed 45 hectares of mountain forests. Almost 2,500 people strove to put out the fire on the north eastern front before dawn, Friday, including [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How can women's land rights be secured - online discussion from 23 January to 6 February 2012]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130481/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Land Coalition (ILC) Secretariat in Rome (Italy) and the Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) are facilitating an online discussion on &ldquo;How can women&rsquo;s land rights be secured&rdquo;. The discussion will be open to contributions in English, French and Spanish from 23 January to 6 February 2012. Participants are describing the obstacles preventing women in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Highlights from the World Future Energy Summit (16-19 January 2012, Abu Dhabi)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The fifth World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2012 opened in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), on 16 January 2012. The first day of this four-day event was organized around the theme &ldquo;Policy and Strategy Forum,&rdquo; and comprised opening statements from Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO Masdar, Wen Jiabao, Premier, China, Kim Hwang-sik, Prime Minister, South Korea, UN Secretary-General Ban [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2012 International Conference on Geological and Environmental Sciences (ICGES 2012)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130484/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[2012 International Conference on Geological and Environmental Sciences(ICGES 2012) will be held from 29 to 30 June 2012 on Jeju Island (South Korea). ICGES 2012 is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of Geological and Environmental Sciences. ICGES 2012 will bring together leading engineers and scientists in Geological and Environmental Sciences [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[DISCCRS VII Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Symposium]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130485/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Since 2003, DISCCRS has hosted symposia for early-career researchers to catalyze formation of interdisciplinary collegial networks, while fostering skills to better prepare graduates to conduct collaborative research and respond to the myriad challenges posed by climate change and its impacts. Participants will share their research; engage in discussions with peers, mentors, and funding agency representatives; and participate in communication and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Earth Child Institute: Nepal's Green School Campaign 2012]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130503/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Looking to collaborate with 200 schools around the country and reach out to around 1,000,000 students is the first initiative of Nepal-based ECI (Earth Child Institute). Launched on 21 January, the &ldquo;Global School Campaign&rdquo; aims to inform and empower children on global environmental issues, and encourage them to adopt green, healthy and sustainable lifestyles in their schools and communities.
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Better scientific understanding of agriculture role in climate change needed]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A team of scientists led by Sir John Beddington, Britain&rsquo;s chief scientific advisor, is urging that agriculture be a top priority in climate change negotiations, saying it&rsquo;s vital for global food security and for reducing carbon emissions. Following the latest United Nations climate conference in December, the recommendations appear in the 20 January issue of Science magazine. In the article, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Position of Director General and other Vacancies offered at CIFOR]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is looking for a Director General to work at the headquarters based in Bogor, Indonesia. CIFOR is conducting research on a broad range of forest-related issues with the aim to inform policies and practices that affect forests in developing countries. With offices in Asia, Africa and South America, CIFOR is one of the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[EU-DFID programme helps Nepal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This joint EU-DFID programme should help the Government of Nepal to integrate climate change considerations into its development planning, as well as in its implementation of concrete measures at the local level to help rural communities adapt to the consequences of climate change. The programme will also support vulnerable communities and help them benefit from access to cleaner energy technologies [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[EUROMONTANA is looking for an ERASMUS trainee – apply by 25 January 2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Brussels-based European Association of Mountain Areas (EUROMONTANA) is looking for a communication and event organisation trainee. The candidate must have applied for an ERASMUS &lsquo;mobility&rsquo; placement at his/her home university and be available to start the internship on 1 March 2012 at the latest. His/her main tasks will be related to the preparation and organisation of a major European [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thawing permafrost reduces river runoff, say Chinese researches]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Chengdu-based Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have revealed that the amount of water entering the Yangtze River near its source on the Tibetan plateau has fallen by 15 percent over the past four decades, despite a 15 percent increase in glacial melt and increased rainfall over the same period. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climber Apa Sherpa to take climate message on "unique" Himalayan trek]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Apa Sherpa, who has climbed Mount Everest a record 21 times, together with two-time Everest climber Dawa Steven Sherpa, will trek 1,700 km along some of the world's highest mountains to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas. In their 120-day walk, they will pass along the length of Nepal's Himalayas, including the 8,850 meter (29,035 feet) Mount [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mechanism at the basis of avalanches discovered]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Brandeis in collaboration with Duke University have revealed the mechanism at the basis of avalanches. Their study, published in the Journal Nature, explains how granular materials are transformed from a loose state to a solid state when force is applied at a particular angle, in a process known as shearing. Resulting from the breakdown of snowflakes, avalanches follow [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Plants Disappear as Climate Warms]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new study says that a warming climate is having a more profound effect on the world's mountainvegetation than previously believed and that some alpine meadows could vanish altogether within afew decades.
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CIPRA report "Water in climate change" now released]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest CIPRA background report on "Water in climate change" has been released. The publication includes reports showing the effects from climate change to water utility, as well as political instruments and good practice examples. Water streaming down from Alpine rivers supplies more than 170 millions of people. Due to the effects of climate change, water availability in the Alps [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Zero-draft for Rio+20 – paragraph n. 94 on mountains]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The zero-draft of the outcome document for Rio+20 Conference is now online with a paragraph (n. 94) dedicated to mountains. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) Conference will take place on 20-22 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). This zero-draft document [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Zero-draft for Rio+20 – paragraph n. 94 on mountains]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/130532/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The zero-draft of the outcome document for Rio+20 Conference is now online with a paragraph (n.94) dedicated to mountains. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) Conference will take place on 20-22 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). This zero-draft document has [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fort William Mountain Festival - 15 - 19 February 2012, Lochaber, Scotland]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Organized by the Highland Mountain Culture Association Limited, the Fort William Mountain Festival will take place from 15 to 19 February 2012 in Lochaber, Scotland. An advanced version of the programme is now online on the related website. The festival features various winter sports activities and films. In addition, the winner of the 2012 Scottish Award for Excellence in Mountain [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Everest must be put on United Nations danger list]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mount Everest must be put on the United Nations endangered list because of the impacts of climate change, say campaigners urging the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. The initiative is organised by Pro Public (Friends of the Earth Nepal) and the Climate Justice Programme, and supported by Friends of the Earth International and notable individuals including Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir David [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Going green: Top 10 bilateral climate change donors in 2010-2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The world&rsquo;s major bilateral donors continue to invest in climate change programming, primarily to comply with the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change US $30 billion Fast Start Finance mechanism for enhanced action on mitigation, adaptation, REDD+, technology development and transfer and capacity building. The top financier of climate change initiatives for the period from 2010 to 2012 is Japan, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MRD issue on Mountains and Energy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The current issue of the Mountain Research and Development (MRD) journal (Volume 31 No 4) is devoted to sustainable production and use of energy in mountain areas. It aims at contributing to the debate about how mountains are affected by the global energy crisis and whether the crisis might offer opportunities for mountain communities. The 6 papers devoted to the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Mountain Development in North America: from Rio 1992 to 2012 and beyond]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/170298/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Regional report on sustainable mountain development in North America ahead of the Rio+20 summit in 2012.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Mountain Development in Central Asia: from Rio 1992 to 2012 and beyond]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/170299/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Regional report on sustainable mountain development in Central Asia ahead of the Rio+20 summit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Mountain Development in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe: from Rio 1992 to 2012 and beyond]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/170301/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Regional report on sustainable mountain development in central, eastern and south eastern Europe ahead of the Rio+20 summit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Mountain Development in Meso America: from Rio 1992 to 2012 and beyond]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Regional report on sustainable mountain development in Meso America ahead of the Rio+20 summit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Mountain Development in the Alps: from Rio 1992 to 2012 and beyond]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/170304/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Regional report on sustainable mountain development in the Alps ahead of the Rio+20 summit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Mountain Development in the Andes: from Rio 1992 to 2012 and beyond]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Regional report on sustainable mountain development in the Andes ahead of the Rio+20 summit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Mountain Development in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya: from Rio 1992 to 2012 and beyond]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/170306/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Regional report on sustainable mountain development in the Hindu Kush Himalaya ahead of the Rio+20 summit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Mountain Development in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya: from Rio 1992 to 2012 and beyond]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/170308/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Regional report on sustainable mountain development in the Hindu Kush Himalaya ahead of the Rio+20 summit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Mountain Development in the Middle East and North Africa: from Rio 1992 to 2012 and beyond]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/170309/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Regional report on sustainable mountain development in the Middle East and North Africa ahead of the Rio+20 summit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[From From Rio 1992 to 2012 and beyond: 20 Years of Sustainable Mountain Development in Africa]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Regional report on sustainable mountain development in Africa ahead of the Rio+20 summit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Mountain Day 2011: Mountains and forests, "living together"]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133953/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Millions of people in the big cities are drinking water coming from these Central Asian mountains. And most of them, they don&rsquo;t know where the water is coming from.&rdquo; .Olman Serrano, Coordinator of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, delivered his message on the occasion of International Mountain Day 2011, noting that this year, IMD coincides with the International Year of Forests. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dolomite mountains: "crumbling down" in winter caused by climate change?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A few days before Christmas, the eastern slope of the Sass Maor has fallen to pieces. Known as one of the major peaks in the Dolomites, the Sass Maor had never been considered as rock prone to instability. According to Antonio Calgaro from the Geoscience department of the University of Padua, "The phenomenon is uncommon in the winter months." Recently, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Working together to make mountains shine]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dear Members and Friends,
If you click on the link below, you will find a few particular moments of our work together this year that I would like to share with you.I believe that together, we have demonstrated our commitment to work for sustainable mountain development.Thank you all for your hard work. Let us continue with the same dedication, to improve [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UHI research warns of snow-free 'black Christmases']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[By 2050 more snow-free &lsquo;black Christmases&rsquo; are likely to affect Rovaniemi, capital of the Finnish Lapland and official hometown of Santa Claus, a study led by the Centre for Mountain Studies - University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) says. The case study was conducted in the context of the Clim-ATIC Project, funded by the European Union Northern Periphery Programme. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The State Government of Rio de Janeiro promotes the creation of the State Park of Pedra Selada]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To coincide with the International Mountain Day, the State Institute for the Environment, Brazil (Instituto Estadual do Ambiente - INEA/SEA-RJ) promoted on 7 December 2011 a public meeting in the Municipality of Resende aimed to discuss the creation of the State Park of Pedra Selada (PEPS). The park will encompass around 8.100 hectares, including the Pedra Selada Peak, 1,755 metres [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Adding mountain language to Rio+20: Meetings of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat in New York ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Event
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From 14 to 16 December 2011, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat participated in meetings in New York looking to forge a common understanding on including mountain development in the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) preparatory process and the Conference itself. The first meeting was the Mountain Focus Group. The second meeting was the United Nations Workshop [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Mountain Day 2011: Mountains and forests, "living together"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 47 - Month 12 - Year 2011
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Olman Serrano, Coordinator of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, delivered his message on the occasion of International Mountain Day 2011, noting that this year, IMD coincides with the International Year of Forests.
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&ldquo;A mountain without trees is like a house without electricity or without drinking water,&rdquo; he said, explaining: &ldquo;Forests and mountains, they live together.&rdquo; [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[DGF meeting, 15 December 2011, New York]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The meeting was organized by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) in New York, in the framework of the Development Grant Facility (DGF) agreement. &nbsp;The objective was to plan activities for DGF Phase 2. The group comprised the DGF partners: UNEP, ICIMOD, World Bank and MPS. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SHARE GeoNetwork – data and information on high altitude ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[SHARE GeoNetwork, a catalogue including metadata, spatial data and geographic information on high altitude environments, is online. SHARE GeoNetwork has been developed by Ev-K2-CNR with the support of Italian and international research institutions, in the context of the programme Stations at High Altitude for Research on the Environment (SHARE). As stated by negotiators during the 17th Conference of the Parties [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Centre for Environment Education (CEE) Himalaya - India]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IMD 2011 was observed by CEE Himalaya as part of their Paryavaran Mitra program in two districts of Kashmir valley. Two schools - Baby&rsquo;s Land Public School, Wakura in Ganderbal District and Govt. Girls&rsquo; Middle School Botingoo Sopore in Baramulla District hosted IMD celebrations on 10th December, 2011 (11th December being a Sunday). Sixty-five students in the age group of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Workshop on Best Practices for Partnerships Considers Options for Rio+20]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/142387/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A &ldquo;Workshop on Partnerships Best Practices and their contributions to Rio+20&rdquo;&nbsp;will be held&nbsp;on 14 December 2011 at UN Headquarters in New York, US. It was convened as an initial discussion regarding the format that could be used for the &ldquo;partnerships forum&rdquo; that UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution A/C.2/66/L.59 indicates should be convened in parallel with UNCSD. Approximately 60 participants, from [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MFG and UN Workshop on Partnerships, New York, 14 December 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[From 14 to 16 December 2011, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat participated in meetings in New York looking to forge a common understanding on including mountain development in the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) preparatory process and the Conference itself. The first meeting was the Mountain Focus Group. The second meeting was the United Nations Workshop on Partnerships. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New information on mountain ecosystems highlights need for investment, adaptation and resilience ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the world celebrated UN International Mountain Day on 11 December, new information released by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), a global mechanism of 14 international organizations, institutions and secretariats, called for greater investment in fragile mountain ecosystems and attention to adaptation issues]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MAB-6 Center, Russian Federation]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/141802/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The MAB-6 Center, based in the Institute of Geography at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, has played a leading role in mountain research and development issues at the national and international level for two decades. ON 9 December, the MAB-6 Center organized&nbsp;a Mountain Seminar&nbsp;dedicated to International Mountain Day.
Seminar flyer]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Andes in the worldwide celebration of International Mountain Day 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To highlight the importance of the Andes in the worldwide celebration of International Mountain Day, on 11 December 2011 the city of Cusco, Peru, joined the regional event "Conserve, Construct, Celebrate&rdquo; organized by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) together with the Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN). The IMD event was held in the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conserve, Construct and Celebrate: International Mountain Day 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ICIMOD celebrated International Mountain Day (IMD) by holding a joint programme with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). With the theme &lsquo;Conserve, Construct and Celebrate&rsquo; a video conference was linked to IMD Day celebrations in Verbier, Switzerland. The event saw the introduction of the World Mountain Forum for Sustainable Development (WMF-for-SD) that met in Verbier for the second [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change impacts, adaptation and development in mountain regions: key issues in Central Asia ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/multimedia/videos/video-detail/en/c/142671/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Effective adaptation strategies are required in response to the impact of climate change in mountain regions. With a view to better integrating scientific evidence and mountain people's experience into international discussions, experts from Azerbaijan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Tajikistan met in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, from 9 to 11 November 2011. Watch the video and find out what Central Asia has to [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Celebrating International Mountain Day 2011 in Uzbekistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Uzbekistan Mountains occupy an area of 96 thousand square kilometers. Therefore, the republic is among the most mountainous regions in the world.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountains and forests, "living together" (1 minute version) ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Coordinator, Olman Serrano, launches a message from the mountains of Central Asia on the occasion of International Mountain Day 2011, falling during the International Year of Forests. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNEP: ”Why we care about mountains – from the Alps and the Carpathians to the Hindu-Kush Himalaya region”]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UNEP Vienna &ndash; Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention is pleased to invite you to the public event &rdquo;Why we care about mountains &ndash; from the Alps and the Carpathians to the Hindu-Kush Himalaya region&rdquo; that will take place on Friday, 16th December, 12.00 &ndash; 3.00 pm in the Vienna International Centre.For registration please refer to veronika.hopfgartner@unvienna.org, indicating your full [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The importance of mountain forests]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The photo exhibition launched on December 11, 2011 for IMD observance at the University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, has been commissioned by the Mountain Partnership for raising awareness on the importance of mountain forests for sustainable development in mountains.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[`Mountain Day' at COP17 Calls for Urgent Actions to Save the World's Mountain Ecosystems]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133964/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A &lsquo;Mountain Day&rsquo; event was held on 4 December 2011 in Durban, South Africa on the sideline of the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It is the first time that a Mountain Day was held in the framework of a UNFCCC COP. The event was organized by the International [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SWOMM 2011 – 13 December 2011, Ministry for Infrastructures and Transport of Italy]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133965/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The seventh Scientific Workshop on Mountain Mobility and Transport (SWOMM) will be held on 13 December 2011 at the EUR headquarters of the Ministry for Infrastructures and Transport of Italy in Rome. SWOMM 2011 is organized by the Italian Ministry for Environment and Transport with the support of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat and EURAC Academy. This year, it will focus [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Forests in a Changing World]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The integrity and resilience of mountain forests is under threat from increasing temperatures and wildfires, population growth and food and fuel insecurity, lead to &ldquo;Mountain Forests in a Changing World&rdquo;, a new FAO publication. The report, jointly produced by the FAO-hosted Mountain Partnership Secretariat and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, was published in the lead up to the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Research and Development, Volume 31, Issue 4 available online and open access]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133966/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The &ldquo;energy crisis&rdquo; has been defined as one of the key issues of a &ldquo;green economy&rdquo; and is therefore on the agenda of the Earth Summit Rio +20. This issue of MRD is the third in 10 years that is devoted to sustainable production and use of energy in mountain areas (see also MRD 26.2 and MRD 21.1). It aims [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Partnering to Protect Mountain Ecosystems from the Vagaries of Climate Change (UNFCCC COP17, Durban, South Africa)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133967/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Seeking to highlight the critical role mountain ecosystems play in climate adaptation and sustainable development, Mountain Day was held on 4 December 2011 during the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in Durban, South Africa. Two high-level panels of ministers and decision-makers advocated the value and role [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Day at UNFCCC COP17, Durban, South Africa]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Seeking to highlight the critical role mountain ecosystems play in climate adaptation and sustainable development, Mountain Day was held on 4 December 2011 during the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in Durban, South Africa. Two high-level panels of ministers and decision-makers advocated the value and role [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Coordinator attends UNFCCC COP17 in Durban]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dear Mountain Friends,
I will be attending the UNFCCC COP17 in Durban from 2 to 7 December 2011
On 4 December, I will participate in International Mountain Day delivering a presentation on "Climate Change Adaptation in Mountains" at the Breakers Resort in Durban
You are welcome to contact me, as I will be available for meetings. Please send me an email at Olman.Serrano(at)fao.org
Warm [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Mountain Development in Southeast Asia and Pacific: from Rio 1992 to 2012 and beyond]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/170303/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Regional report on sustainable mountain development in Southeast Asia and Pacific ahead of the Rio+20 summit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Summit for a Living Himalaya]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133969/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Climate change poses severe threats to Himalayan nations. With 24 of its 2674 glacial lakes considered unstable, the Kingdom of Bhutan alone is preparing for an increase in "mountain tsunamis", as the phenomenon is often referred to. The one occurred in 1994 caused dozens of people dead. Further to the Climate Summit for a Living Himalaya held in Bhutan&rsquo;s capital [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Highlands and Drylands: Mountains, a Source of Resilience in Arid Regions]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/142407/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Recognizing the crucial role of Dryland Mountains - water towers for surrounding dry lowland areas, global change laboratories for monitoring the combined effects of climate and socio-economic changes - in the global discourse on how to redefine and implement a truly sustainable development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together with the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Strategic Initiative on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development in Mountain Regions | Africa Regional Meeting]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Watch the photogallery of the third Regional Meeting&nbsp;(Mbale, Africa, 16 to 18 November 2011). ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Development in Mountain Regions]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133970/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[There is still very limited awareness, let alone concern, at the global-level of the impacts caused by climate change in mountain ecosystems. The information available generally focuses on retreating glaciers. While the perception may be one of regions with low population density in a harsh environment, the reality is magnitudes of people are affected directly and indirectly by changes in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Strategic Initiative on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development in Mountain Regions | Central Asia Regional Meeting ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Watch the photogallery of the second Regional Meeting&nbsp;(Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 16 to 18 November 2011). ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Strategic Initiative on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development in Mountain Regions | Africa Regional Meeting]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/142822/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The third Regional Meeting - Africa - on Sustainable Development in African Mountain Regions was held in Mbale, Uganda, from 16 to 18 November 2011. The meeting was jointly organised by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with support from the World Bank, in the context of the &ldquo;Strategic Initiative for Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Strategic Initiative on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development in Mountain Regions | Central Asia Regional Meeting ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/142824/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The second Regional Meeting - Central Asia - was held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, from 16 to 18 November 2011. The meeting was jointly organised by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, the University of Central Asia (UCA) and the Government of Tajikistan, with support from the World Bank, in the context of the &ldquo;Strategic Initiative for Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change impacts, adaptation and development in mountain regions: key issues in Central Asia]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/multimedia/videos/video-detail/en/c/142820/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Effective adaptation strategies are required in response to the impact of climate change in mountain regions. With a view to better integrating scientific evidence and mountain people's experience into international discussions, experts from Azerbaijan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Tajikistan met in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, from 9 to 11 November 2011. Watch the video and find out what Central Asia has to [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Strategic Initiative on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development in Mountain Regions | Latin America Regional Meeting]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/142825/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The first regional meeting - Latin America - was held in Santiago, Chile from 26 to 28 October 2011.The meeting was jointly organised by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat in collaboration with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Chile and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO).In Chile, participants have visited Caj&oacute;n del Maipo, a canyon located in the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Strategic Initiative on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development in Mountain Regions | Latin America Regional Meeting]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/multimedia/photogalleries/photogallery-detail/en/c/141806/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Watch the photogallery of the first Regional Meeting&nbsp;(Santiago, Chile, 26 to 28 October 2011). ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Towards Rio+20 - contributions about mountain issues for the compilation document - Deadline Reminder!]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133972/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Join the Mountain Partnership community in the campaign to ensure that mountain issues receive their strongly deserved attention in the Rio+20 agenda. An important World Mountain Conference recently concluded in Lucerne, Switzerland. Its Call for Action could provide important elements to ensure mountains be included in the Rio+20 Summit. The Mountains for the World Call to Action is available online [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Natural Hazards Mitigation: Prediction and Assessment: Call for Papers]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133973/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Kamla Raja Girls Government Post - Graduate College, Gwalior (Madhya, Pradesh in India) has opened a Call for papers to contribute to a book titled 'Natural Hazards Mitigation: Prediction and Assessment'. The frequency and intensity of natural hazards are increasing at an alarming rate due to climate change and man-induced activities. Meanwhile, mitigation measures are still lagging behind. It [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Green Economy for Sustainable Mountain Development: A Concept Paper for Rio+20 and Beyond]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133974/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has released a new publication titled &acirc;&euro;&tilde;Green Economy for Sustainable Mountain Development: A Concept Paper for Rio+20 and Beyond&acirc;&euro;&trade;. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20), to be held in June 2012, will have green economy as one of its two main themes. This paper was prepared to strengthen [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133975/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Today during the 37th session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy the &acirc;&euro;&oelig;2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development&acirc;&euro; key findings were presented and followed by an open debate with a Q&amp;A. The authors of the Report use a conceptual framework to examine progress to date, and then recommend policy [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World Food Day 2011: Global Hunger Index and the hunger situation in mountainous countries]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133977/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The 2011 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report was recently released. This report, prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) presents a multidimensional of global, regional and national hunger, calls for action to build resilience and mitigate the effects of volatility, particularly in countries where hunger is most severe. Of the 59 countries with serious, alarming and extremely alarming [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Food Prices - From Crisis to Stability - World Food Day 2011 ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133978/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Taming food prices. Millions of people around the world live in chronic hunger. When food prices fluctuate wildly as they have in recent years, it's the poor who are hit the hardest. World Food Day 2011 calls on the global community to do what's needed to stabilize food prices.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lucerne World Mountain Conference: Closing and Call for Action]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133979/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Lucerne World Mountain Conference closes with a "Call for Action" to bring a conjunct strong message to Rio+20 in June 2012. Twenty years after the Rio 1992 meeting, over 100 participants joined to meet in Lucerne, Switzerland to make a compelling case for mountains in international development discussions. A source of fresh water for half of the earth&rsquo;s population, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bhutan's Royal Wedding]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133980/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan has been experiencing royal wedding fever. On 13 October 2011, King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck was married to his commoner bride, Jetsun Pema. The lavish ceremony took place in front of a giant Buddha statue and began with a procession of red-robed monks, the chants of welcome, the clanging of drums and the drone [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lucerne World Mountain Conference: Closing and Call for Action]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133981/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Lucerne World Mountain Conference closes with a "Call for Action" to bring a conjunct strong message to Rio+20 in June 2012. Twenty years after the Rio 1992 meeting, over 100 participants joined to meet in Lucerne, Switzerland to make a compelling case for mountains in international development discussions. A source of fresh water for half of the earth&rsquo;s population, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lucerne World Mountain Conference, Switzerland ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Twenty years on from the first &ldquo;Earth Summit&rdquo; (Rio 1992) and in preparation to the Rio+20 Summit (June 2012), a World Mountain Conference was convened within the framework of the Mountain Partnership from 11 to 12 October 2011 in Lucerne, Switzerland. The main organizers of the event were the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Swiss Federal [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Publication Launch - Highlands and drylands: Mountains, a source of resilience in arid regions]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/133982/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[During the tenth session of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP10) - scheduled to convene from 10 to 21 October in Changwon City, Gyeongnam Province, Republic of Korea - an event will be held to launch a new publication entitled "Highlands and Drylands: Mountains, a source of resilience in arid regions" published by FAO, the Mountain Partnership [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lucerne World Mountain Conference (11-12 October 2011): Identifying challenges and opportunities for the future of global sustainable mountain development ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lucerne, 11 October 2011 &ndash; More than 100 participants representing governments, non-governmental organizations, academia, civil society, politics, business and the United Nations system will look to sharpen the profile of mountains on the international agenda during the Lucerne World Mountain Conference, a two-day meeting starting today in Lucerne (Switzerland).]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conferencia Mundial de Lucerna sobre las Montañas (11-12 de octubre de 2011): Determinación de los retos y oportunidades para el futuro del desarrollo sostenible mundial de las montañas]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lucerna, 11 de octubre de 2011 &ndash; M&aacute;s de 100 representantes de gobiernos, organizaciones no gubernamentales, universidades, la sociedad civil, la pol&iacute;tica, negocios y el sistema de las Naciones Unidas tratar&aacute;n de destacar la presencia de las regiones de monta&ntilde;a en la agenda internacional durante la Conferencia Mundial de Lucerna sobre las Monta&ntilde;as, una reuni&oacute;n de dos d&iacute;as que comienza [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conférence internationale sur les régions de montagne à Lucerne (11-12 octobre 2011): Identifier les défis et les opportunités futurs en matière de développement durable dans les régions de montagne dans le monde]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lucerne, le 11 octobre 2011 - Plus de 100 participants repr&eacute;sentant les gouvernements, les organisations non gouvernementales, le monde universitaire, la soci&eacute;t&eacute; civile, les politiques, le monde des affaires et le syst&egrave;me des Nations Unies vont se rencontrer pour affiner le profil des montagnes sur l'agenda international lors de la Conf&eacute;rence de Lucerne sur les montagnes du monde entier, une [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lucerne World Mountain Conference]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Event
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Twenty years on from the first &ldquo;Earth Summit&rdquo; (Rio 1992) and in preparation to the upcoming Rio+20 Summit (June 2012), a World Mountain Conference was convened within the framework of the Mountain Partnership from 11 to 12 October 2011 in Lucerne, Switzerland. The main organizers of the event were the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nepal launches Great Himalayan Trail: An arduous trek stretching 1,700 kilometres (1,050-miles)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nepal has officially opened its section of the Great Himalaya Trail, one of the longest and highest walking trails in the world. The Great Himalaya Trail (GHT) spans the entire length of the country - from Kanchenjunga in the East to Humla in the West - and will provide a significant boost to the tourism industry and its associated support [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lucerne World Mountain Conference (11-12 October 2011)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Participants at this conference will discuss regional and global experiences in mountain development since Rio 1992. The results of the Conference will produce insights that will feed into initiatives and events such as the UN Secretary General&rsquo;s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP), the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20), and the CSD biennal cycle 20/21 in 2013 [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change is an exhibit being held at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Indian (NMAI) in Washington DC (USA) from 22 July 2011 to 2 January 2012. It is a premiere installation of Conversations with the Earth (CWE) - an indigenous-led initiative that amplifies indigenous voices in the global discourse on climate [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Second World Landslide Forum: Putting science into practice]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will be hosting the Second World Landslide Forum (WLF) from 3 to 7 October in Rome, Italy. The Forum has the objective to further develop the outcomes of the First Forum (Tokyo, 2008) by providing a global cross-cutting information and cooperation platform for all types of organizations representing academia, UN [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FAO-OECD Expert Meeting on Greening the Economy with Agriculture]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is collaborating with partners to analyze existing information and develop possible scenarios for Greening the Economy with Agriculture (GEA), including an evaluation of sustainability progress and gaps in the food supply chain to project food supply and demand towards 2050. In order to address these scenarios a joint FAO and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Establishment of Altai Trans-boundary Reserve ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On 15 September 2011, Ministers of the Russian Federation and Republic of Kazakhstan officially signed an intergovernmental agreement regarding the establishment of the Trans-boundary Reserve &ldquo;Altai&rdquo; on the basis of Katunskiy Biosphere Reserve in Russia and Katon-Karagaiskiy National Park in Kazakhstan. The signed agreement is based on the six-years of consultations and negotiations with various stakeholders, and finally it designates [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In Memoriam of the ''Tree Lady" Wangari Maathai]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kenyan social activist and environmental crusader, Wangari Maathai, passed away on 25 September in Kenya. She was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. The Green Belt Movement, which she founded in 1977, has planted an estimated 45 million trees around Kenya to combat deforestation that often deepens poverty. Professor Maathai worked with women to improve their [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Call for submission of Multimedia Materials on Mountains and Green Economy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To raise awareness of the importance of mountainous areas in a Green Economy context, and to provide concrete examples of how the world's mountain regions are contributing to the green economy, several members of the Mountain Partnership have agreed to join efforts to produce the annual issue of the Mountain Forum Bulletin. This issue is dedicated to 'Mountains and the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Powerful quake rocks the Himalayas - India, Nepal and Tibet]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A strong earthquake measuring 6.9 on the richter scale shook northeastern India and Nepal on Sunday evening, 18 September 2011. The earthquake, which triggered landslides, wrecking buildings and sent people fleeing into the streets of Kathmandu, the Nepalese capital, and other cities, initially struck a remote part of the Himalayas at the eastern tip of Nepal. Its epicentre was in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Research and Development - available online and open access]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the newest issue of Mountain Research and Development (MRD) three papers focus on water resources and water management issues in the Indus Basin&mdash;one of the largest watersheds in the world, with well over 200 million people in the lower basin depending on the water from headwaters shared by China, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Further papers focus on other natural [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Juniper bush - disappearance in the Himalayas discovered by Mountain Institute expedition ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[During a recent expedition to Imja Lake, Nepal, in the Himalayas, scientists of the Mountain Institute (TMI) discovered evidence that Jupiter bushes are disappearing. This phenomenon is a &ldquo;disaster in making&rdquo;, which will cause extreme problems to Himalayan ecosystems. The high terrain surrounding the lake, near the hill behind the village of Dingboche, that is traditionally covered with juniper , [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Famous Italian Climber Walter Bonatti dead at 81]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mountaineering world is mourning the death of the legendary Italian climber Walter Bonatti. He died of cancer in Rome aged 81. As one of the world&rsquo;s most important climbers, Bonatti was a pioneer of little known and technically difficult routes, particularly in the Alps, the Himalayas and Patagonia in the 1950s and 60s. After participating in the first ascent [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA["Environment for Europe" Ministerial Conference - Kazakhstan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Seventh &ldquo;Environment for Europe&rdquo; Ministerial Conference will take place from 21 to 23 September 2011 in Astana, Kazakhstan, convened by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Committee on Environmental Policy. The two main themes for the Conference are Sustainable management of water and water-related ecosystems; and Greening the Economy: mainstreaming the environment into economic development. The &ldquo;Environment [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Green Economy and Sustainable Mountain Development: Kathmandu Declaration]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The &ldquo;International Conference on Green Economy and Sustainable Mountain Development: Opportunities and Challenges in View of Rio+20,&rdquo; organized by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), with support from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), took place in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 5 to 7 September 2011. Participants, 150 policy makers, scientists and development [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rio+20 – Share your Mountain pictures!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A call has been launched to upload pictures on sustainable development on the Rio+20 website. Through the Rio+20 process world leaders have the opportunity to create a new paradigm of sustainable lifestyles. Ensuring that our future needs can be met, and balancing our consumption with the environmental limits of the planet, is a collective effort that will impact all levels [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global research call on Climate Change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) launched its second global research call. CDKN supports developing countries to deliver climate compatible development, offering advice and technical assistance, cutting-edge research, strategic knowledge sharing and partnership building. CDKN seeks to fund research of the highest scientific standards aimed to provide a robust evidence-base for decision-making. The call will cover two themes: Climate [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly Report: Sustainable mountain development (2011)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sustainable mountain development - Report of the Secretary-General to the 66th Session. A/66/294]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MRD: Call for papers on "Green Economy and Livelihoods in Mountains"]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134301/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Research and Development (MRD) has launched a call for papers focused on how a Green Economy can enhance livelihoods in mountain regions. The papers will contribute to the preparatory process for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD also known as the Earth Summit 2012 or &ldquo;Rio+20&rdquo;). The 2012 Earth Summit strives to include &lsquo;Green Economy&rsquo; in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) call for news ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134333/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) has made a call to for contributions to prepare their next August Newsflashes. These targeted Newsflashes will be sent out to the three MRI networks for Europe, South Eastern European (SEEmore) and Science for the Carpathians (S4C). Brief submissions with information on the latest ideas, proposals, projects, results, sites, networks, events and publications are welcomed. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Family Faming World Conference: Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The IV World Conference of the Association for Development World Rural Forum (WRF) on "Family Farming. Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth" will take place from 5 to 7 October 2011 in Bilbaou, Spain at the Euskalduna Conference Centre. The Conference will gather together representatives of agricultural organizations, associations linked to Rural Development, NGO, food companies and cooperatives, public [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNESCO conference calls for better protection of biological diversity when mitigating climate change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On 28 June, some 280 high-level experts from 80 countries attending an international conference in Dresden, Germany approved a declaration claiming for better protection of biological diversity when mitigating climate change. The two-day conference was organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the German Ministry for the Environment, the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Water issues in the Andes - CONDESAN radio broadcasts]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Five short radio broadcasts on water issues in the Andes are now on the website of Consorcio para el Desarollo Sostenible de la Ecorregi&oacute;n Andina (CONDESAN). The broadcasts have been developed by CONDESAN with the support of the Agencia Espa&ntilde;ola de Cooperaci&oacute;n Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) and of the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) in the context [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Conference on Green Economy and Sustainable Mountain Development]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134453/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Conference on Green Economy and Sustainable Mountain Development &ndash; Opportunities and Challenges in View of Rio+20 will be held from 5-7 September in Kathmandu, Nepal. It is a collaborative initiative of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to bring together international, regional and national experts together with policy makers [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Innovation in mountain areas: 4th European Biennial of Mountain Regions ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vosges is organizing the 4th European Biennial of Mountain Regions, which will take place from 13 to 14 October 2011 in G&eacute;rardmer (Vosges), France. The focus will be on "Innovation in mountain areas". Various threats undermine European mountain regions, i.e. climate change, land pressure, demographic deficit and reduction of public funds. Mountain areas [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Innovation in mountain areas: 4th European Biennial of Mountain Regions ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134459/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vosges is organizing the 4th European Biennial of Mountain Regions, which will take place from 13 to 14 October 2011 in G&eacute;rardmer (Vosges), France. The focus will be on "Innovation in mountain areas". Various threats undermine European mountain regions, i.e. climate change, land pressure, demographic deficit and reduction of public funds. Mountain areas [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Opportunity to collaborate with the ICCA Consortium]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCA) Consortium is seeking applicants for the positions of Regional and Global Coordinators. The incumbents will work with the Steering Committee, ICCA Consortium Members and honorary members to implement the 2011-2014 Work-programme of the Consortium, to develop on the outcomes from a side event held at CBD COP1O in Nagoya, Japan and strengthen networking [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vacancies: MSRC at UCA, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic – by 10 August 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Societies Research Centre (MSRC) is seeking a Director and Senior Research Scientist. The MSRC was recently established at the University of Central Asia (UCA) to generate, disseminate and promote the application of knowledge for the development of the countries in Central Asia. Their societies focus on mountain areas of the MSRC&rsquo;s research agenda and include topics of economy, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sun's rays power Kyrgyz hospitals]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[From next month, five hospitals in remote mountainous provinces of Kyrgyzstan will start using solar panels to transform the sun&rsquo;s rays into clean energy and hot water. The pilot project is sponsored by the German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and is implemented by the World Health Organisation. It is part of a programme called [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Map reveals UK Land Cover and habitat distributions]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new Land Cover Map in the UK has been launched. It provides a continuous coverage of habitat distributions across the countryside at a 25 m resolution. The map is the third produced by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Land and is based on a combination of satellite images and national scale digital mapping data. The map unveils that [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Call for Proposals: Review of and strategy development for communications and social learning in climate change]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134469/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), together with the Earth Science Partnership, has launched a call for proposals for a review of and strategy development for climate change communications and social learning in climate change. The objective of this call is to review both the current approaches to climate [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Study on 800-year-old tree rings backs global warming in the North American Cordillera]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A study on tree rings in western North America gives evidence of global warming. The study has been carried out by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and University of Washington and published on Science. Scientists sampled thousands trees at 66 sites (including 800-year-old exemplars) in key runoff-generating areas of the Colorado, Columbia and Missouri River drainages. Using tree-rings chronologies, they [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Programs and Policy Director at NCSE in Oakland, California, USA – send CVs by 15 August 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) in Oakland, California, USA, seeks a Climate Change Programs and Policy Director. Candidates must have at least a college degree, while advanced degrees, particularly in climate science or climate science education are pluses. Excellent communication skills, computer literacy (including the use of social media) and the ability to work cooperatively are necessary. The [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New book on Biological Diversity in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan countries now released ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new book titled &lsquo;Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity: A retrospective analysis in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan countries&rsquo; by Bharat H. Desai, Krishna Prasad Oli, Yang Yongping, Nakul Chettri and Eklabya Sharma has been released by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). The book&rsquo;s focus is on the progress made in the implementation of the Convention on [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[1,190 Trees Planted in Lakhuri Banjyang, Nepal ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On 25 June 2011, Asian Trekking and the Hotel Mount Monastery organized the 6th annual tree plantation event in Lakhuri Bhanjyang village (near Kathmandu), Nepal. Lakhuri Bhanjyang lies perched atop the pristine hill of Pokhari Thumko (2000 m) and has panoramic views of mountain peaks. The trail there passes through emerald rice fields and villages not yet touched by modernization. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vacancy: Lead Scientist Oman – applications by 15 July 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Earthwatch institute and Sultan Qaboos University are looking for a Lead Earthwatch scientist for Oman Earthwatch Programme. The incumbent will be working on the woodland research, restoration and regeneration conservation project for the Oman Earthwatch Programme. This role will require an extensive amount of travel. A 12 month rolling fixed term contract will be provided. If interested, please, submit [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Increased mining threats in World Heritage sites, IUCN warns]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) invites extractive industries and governments that licence their activities to commit to stopping all mining and oil/gas exploration and exploitation activities, which could damage the World Heritage Sites. IUCN states in a new World Heritage Advice Note that threats posed by planned mining and oil and gas projects particularly affect all 37 [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Change threatens a fragile ecosystem in the Andes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Recent studies by the Antioquia Engineering School in Colombia revealed the P&aacute;ramo, a fragile ecosystem in the Andes, is extremely threatened by climate change. The P&aacute;ramo is located above the highest part of the tree belt and the perpetual snow in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. It is home to 5,000 species with 3,000 existing only there. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Conference on East Africa Mountains – 14 - 16 November 2011, Mbale, Uganda]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[From 14 to 16 November 2011, the International Conference on East Africa Mountains (ICEAM 201) will be held in Mbale, Uganda. The conference is being organized by the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and the French Institute for Research in Africa (INFRA) Nairobi in cooperation with several universities (Makerere University Kampala, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Busitema University, University [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNESCO Educational Resource Kit for Mountainous Regions]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[An educational resource kit for mountainous regions has been produced by the UNESCO Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences and its Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB). The kit includes a manual for teachers and an activity book to teach pupils (from 10 to 15 years) about mountain environment and its specific issues through a fun and engaging approach. This [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Graziano da Silva elected next FAO Director-General]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAO Members meeting in Rome elected the Brazilian Jos&eacute; Graziano da Silva as Director-General on Sunday, 26 June 2011. Currently, FAO's Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean and Assistant Director-General, since 2006, he was involved in relevant programmes and initiatives for food security. After his election, da Silva thanked FAO staff and he spoke of his commitment to [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Glacier retreats in Teesta basin, India study says]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A study conducted by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (India) in association with the Ahmedabad-based Space Application Centre of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has revealed glacier retreats in the Teesta basin (part of the Brahmaputra basin. According to the study in 1990, 34 glaciers once covered an area of 305 km2. But in 2004, the Teesta [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Call for case studies for a report on mountain forests worldwide – by 30 June 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Martin Price, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development, launched a request for case studies for a report on mountain forests worldwide he is coordinating. The report has been commissioned to the Institute of Forest Ecology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) and FAO by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to mark the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[RomaForest2011 Congress - 23-24 June 2011, Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The &ldquo;RomaForest2011 Congress&rdquo; will be held from 23 to 24 June 2011 at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, Italy. This event aims to analyze and discuss the present and future role of forest resources within the socio-economic development of rural areas of European Countries. Invited speakers will share best practices, explore the opportunities provided by EU programmes and debate [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Special issue of special issue of Asia Pacific Mountain Courier on ‘Youth and Climate Change' Vol. 12 No. 1 (2011) now online]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A special issue of Asia Pacific Mountain Courier on &lsquo;Youth and Climate Change&rsquo; Vol. 12 No. 1 (2011) is now online. The review highlights the significance of use of &lsquo;Art&rsquo; in communicating climate change messages. Art in all its forms is a powerful means of communication, helping overcome barriers of language and culture, and providing a creative pathway for discussions [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ICIMOD pilots first Forest Carbon Trust Fund in Nepal ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Under the first-ever pilot Forest Carbon Trust Fund in Nepal, representatives from three watersheds in Dolakha, Gorkha, and Chitwan districts received a total sum of US$ 95,000 on behalf of community forest user groups at a ceremony organized at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) on 15 June 2011. The pilot Forest Carbon Trust Fund has been created [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Symposium on Pastoralism in Central Asia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The University of Central Asia (UCA) and the National Centre for Competency in Research North-South (NCCR-NS) co-hosted an International Symposium on &ldquo;Pastoralism in Central Asia: Status, Challenges and Opportunities in Mountain Areas&rdquo;. His Excellency Torogul Bekov, Minister of Agriculture, Kyrgyz Republic delivered the opening remarks highlighting the importance of the topic dedicated to development of mountain societies, regional cooperation in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UN Climate Change Conference June 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Event
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On 3 June 2011 FAO and the Mountain Partnership organized a meeting on mountains and climate change in the context of the UNFCCC. The countries who participated were Armenia, Bhutan, Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, as well as the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and a representative of the UNFCCC Secretariat. The [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World Environment Day 2011 - Forests: Nature at Your Service - 5 June ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The World Environment Day (WED) has been launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 1972 and celebrated every year on 5 June. WED aims to stimulate public awareness on environmental issues and to urge politics to act in favour of these. This year&rsquo;s theme is dedicated to: &ldquo;Forests: Nature at Your Service&rdquo;. Covering 31 percent of total land [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dr. David Molden Selected as Future Director General of ICIMOD ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dr. David Molden has been selected by the full Board of Governors of ICIMOD to become the new Director General designate of ICIMOD. He will succeed Dr. Andreas Schild, current Director General of ICIMOD, from 1 December 2011. Dr. Molden, a national of the USA, is currently the Deputy Director General Research of IWMI in Sri Lanka. He is a [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Greenland Glaciers Lose Enough Ice to Fill Lake Erie, Study Says]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The rate of ice loss at two of Greenland&rsquo;s largest glaciers has increased so much over the last decade that, if melted, the amount would be enough to fill Lake Erie, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Researchers found that the rate of ice loss from the Jakobshavn and Kangerdlugssuaq glaciers far exceeded the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[E-discussion on Sustainable Mountain Development in the Southeast Asian Region: From Rio 1992 to Rio+20, 2012 and beyond - June 1-30, 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) together with experts from the Non-Timber Forest Product-Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP), as a member of the global Mountain Partnership Consortium (MPC), has launched an E-discussion on Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD) in the Southeast Asian Region, which will take place on 1-30 June, 2011. The E-discussion will focus on 3 themes related to SMD [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mounting Crossfire-Opportunity as Guest Writer at CHI Knowledge Sharing Platform]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Climate Himalaya Initiative launched regular debates at Climate Himalaya Initiative&rsquo;s Knowledge Web portal, called Mounting-Crossfire,. The July 2011 edition will focus on: Institutions working in Himalayan region have adequately developed Knowledge on Ecology and Sustainable Development on Mountain Ecosystem in Himalayan region! and two guest guests writes are searched, one to argue for this proposition; one to argue against [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ICIMOD Annual Report 2010 now released]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The ICIMOD Annual Report 2010 has been released. The Report deals with ICIMOD&rsquo;s evolution over the years, with a focus on the themes of biodiversity, youth engagement, and remote sensing. ICIMOD's role in support of the Convention on Biological Diversity is highlighted, and especially advocacy for mountain biodiversity and participation in the COP 10 event in Nagoya, Japan. It includes [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Help requested to find statistical figures disaggregated for mountain areas]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAO is in the process of finalizing a booklet on sustainable mountain development and help to find up-to-date statistics is requested. The focus should be on figures showcasing how many conflicts worldwide are actually fought in mountain regions. Additional statistical figures disaggregated for mountain regions would be highly appreciated, in particular if regarding the effects of climate change, disasters and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Mountain Development Summit – 21-22 May, Nainital (Uttarakhand), India]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Sustainable Mountain Development Summit organized by the Indian Mountain Initiative (IMI) was held on 21 and 22 May in Nainital (Uttarakhand), India. The summit covered issues related to hydropower, climate change adaptation, rural tourism and community forestry. Mrs. Margaret Alva, Governor of Uttarakhand State in India pointed out that human kind will increasingly depend on mountain resources like water, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountain Areas Conference - 16-18 April 2012, in Stuttgart, Germany – abstracts by 1 November 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A conference on Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountain Areas will take place from 16 to 18 April 2012 at the Hohenheim University in Stuttgart, Germany. The themes will include soil care, land use and land cover change in mountain landscapes, sustainable and competitive livestock systems, supplying, using, sharing and cycling of matter and water. It will also [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Everest “live” thanks to the new EvK2Cnr webcam installed]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mount Everest &ldquo;live&rdquo; with high resolution images is available, thanks to the new webcam installed by EvK2Cnr Italian and Nepalese technicians on 16 May 2011. The webcam is only 11 km far from the highest mountain in the world (8,848 m), on the top of Kala Patthar (5.600 m). It was installed within the 2011 Share Everest expedition promoted [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Conference of the Project “Econnect: Restoring the Web of Life” - 26-28 September 2011, Germany]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Final Conference of the Project &ldquo;Econnect: Restoring the Web of Life&rdquo; will take place on 26-28 September 2011 in Kongresshaus Berchtesgaden, Germany. The ECONNECT project, co-funded by the European Territorial Cooperation Programme in the Alpine Space (INTERREG IVB), is an interdisciplinary work on ecological barriers in the Alps carried out by 16 European partners since 2008. The Final Conference [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Enlarged Technical Committee of the World Mountain People Association (WMPA) – 27 July 2011, France]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Technical Committee of the World Mountain People Association (WMPA) will take place on 27 July 2011 at the General Assembly in Paris (101, rue de l'Universit&eacute; 7&egrave;me - salon Mansart) France. The organization was founded in 2000 to give voice to the mountain populations worldwide. Who might be interested in taking part to the meeting should communicate it in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Enlarged Technical Committee of the World Mountain People Association (WMPA) – 27 July 2011, France]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Technical Committee of the World Mountain People Association (WMPA) will take place on 27 July 2011 at the General Assembly in Paris (101, rue de l'Universit&eacute; 7&egrave;me - salon Mansart) France. The organization was founded in 2000 to give voice to the mountain populations worldwide. Who might be interested in taking part to the meeting should communicate it in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Call for Papers for the “Building Sustainable Peace through Tourism and Environment” Conference - 20-21 September 2011, Nepal]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134587/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A Conference on &ldquo;Building Sustainable Peace through Tourism and Environment&rdquo; organized by Global Peace Association (GPA) Nepal and Himalayan Alliance for Climate Change (HIMCCA) will take place on 20-21 September 2011 in Nepal. Researchers, practitioners, policymakers, planners, government agencies, international development agencies, civil society organizations and entrepreneurs working on these areas are invited to take part and to submit abstracts. [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Countries and the Road to Rio +20]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Event
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In preparation for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development &ndash; also called the Rio+20 Summit - mountain countries met in New York to join forces and renew high political attention to fragile mountain ecosystems. On 9 May 2011, during the CSD 19, Switzerland and Italy welcomed members of the Mountain Focus Group &ndash; an informal group [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[South and Central Asia regional virtual consultation on youth perspectives on Rio +20]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134588/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[From Rio 1992 to Rio+20, 2012 and beyond: Where do we stand &ndash; How can we make a difference and promote green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication? To respond to these issues, ICIMOD&rsquo;s Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) together with the Small Earth Nepal (SEN) and the Environmental Challenge Organization, also known as ECO Singapore, [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CSD 19 – New York ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 19th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 19) opened in New York, US, on 2 May 2011, and will run through 13 May 2011. This session will negotiate policy decisions related to the thematic cluster of transport, chemicals, hazardous waste, mining and the 10-year framework of programmes (10YFP) on sustainable consumption and production (SCP). In addition [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Seminar on Water Security and Climate Change: Challenges and Strategies (4-6 November 2011, Guru Nanak dev University, Amritsar)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ensuring fresh and pure water to every individual is a significant tool of empowerment for the poor and vulnerable society of the globe. However, inadequate knowledge of policy and regulatory framework and its poor implementation, combined with a non-transparent and non participatory water management process is proving to be the root cause of many water related problems. The seminar will [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Youth Forum on Climate Actions and Mountain Issues, 8-12 August 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the International Year of Youth 2011/12 and the International Youth Day on 12 August, a Youth Forum 2011 on Climate Actions and Mountain Issues is being organized by ICIMOD from 8 to 12 August 2011. The Forum will celebrate the next generation leadership in sustainable mountain development and climate change adaptation in ICIMOD Regional Member Countries [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FAO Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study – new reports on line]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has finalised the second Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study. The new publications include "Asia-Pacific Forests and Forestry to 2020", covering major aspects of forestry development across the Asia-Pacific region and "Forest policies, legislation and institutions in Asia and the Pacific. Trends and emerging needs for 2020&rdquo;. Subregional reports for Southeast Asia, East Asia, the [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hindu Kush-Himalaya regional e-discussion on Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD) – 4-24 April 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[An e-discussion on Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD) in Hindu Kush-Himalaya Region (HKH) is taking place from 4 to 24 April 2011. The discussion aims at collecting information on the steps made by the HKH region in promoting sustainable mountain development (SMD) at a human, social and natural level since the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Gorillas at risks of extinction infected by human virus ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A study recently published in the review &ldquo;Emerging Infectious Diseases&rdquo; has found that gorilla's living in the national parks in Africa are being infected by a RNA virus called human metapneumovirus (HMPV) that is common in humans. It provokes respiratory diseases and has proved to be fatal to some of these wild mountain gorillas, leading to the death of two [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New publication on fodder problem in Indian Himalayan Region - energy dynamics and women labour]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The new publication &ldquo;Energy budget of fodder harvesting pattern along the altitudinal gradient in Garhwal Himalaya&rdquo; by Shalini Dhyani of G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, R.K. Maikhuri and D. Dhyani has been released in "Journal of Biomass and Bioenergy". Dealing with the fodder problem in Indian Himalayan Region, the article highlights the energy dynamics and women drudgery [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New Partnership for Mediterranean forests launched at the Second Mediterranean Forest Week in Avignon, France]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FAO is part of the new Partnership for Mediterranean forests launched at the Second Mediterranean Forest Week in Avignon, France (5-8 April 2011). Mediterranean forests play a key role for the socio-economic development of the region and they suffer from major threats such as severe wildfires, which are exacerbated by the impact of climate change. Agricultural expansion, tourism, urban development [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SERVIR seeking for the East Africa Regional Director]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[SERVIR seeks to recruit a highly motivated and skilled individual for the position of East Africa Regional Director, to be based at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), in Nairobi, Kenya. Founded in 2005 by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), SERVIR focuses on integrating satellite [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New book now released: “Framework for Valuing Ecosystem Services in the Himalayas”]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ICIMOD has now released a new book, &lsquo;Framework for Valuing Ecosystem Services in the Himalayas&rsquo; by Golam Rasul, Nakul Chettri and Eklabya Sharma. This paper outlines a general framework for economic valuation of ecosystem services focusing on mountain specific situations, which could be applied in the Hindu Kush- Himalayan region. Around half of the world&rsquo;s population depends directly or indirectly [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Alpine Climate Change Days]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Italian Ministry for the Environment together with the Institute for Timber Plants and for the Environment (IPLA) and the Piedmont delegation of the National Union of Mountain Communities, Municipalities and Authorities (UNCEM Piemonte) organized the Conference &ldquo;Alpine Climate Change Days&rdquo; at the Regional Museum of Natural Science in Turin (Italy). The event, promoted within the framework of the Manfred [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International World Water Day 2011 - 22 March 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[22 March is the International World Water Day (WWD). Following a decision of the General Assembly in 1993, WWD is held annually on this day as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. The theme of this year - 'Water and Urbanization' - provides a good opportunity to [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dramatic consequences of the most severe earthquake and tsunami in Japan's history ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, decimating villages, agricultural land and infrastructure. Measuring 8.9 (later referred as 9.0) on the Richter scale, the earthquake was the most severe in the history of Japan. BBC reports over 2400 people killed and more than 3000 people as missing. The daunting tsunami - 10 meter high, according to [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ACP-FLEGT Support Programme - Call for Proposals – by 20 May 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is issuing a call for proposals through its Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Support Programme to African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP-FLEGT Support Programme). The ACP-FLEGT Support Programme, through funding from the European Commission, provides assistance to ACP countries to put the European Union FLEGT Action Plan into practice [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[TILCEPA Social Policy Specialist Group on Mountain Connectivity, mountain Protected Areas & mountainous Transboundary Conserved Landscapes]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134635/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Joint Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) &ndash; World Commission on protected Areas (WCPA) Theme on Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas (TILCEPA) is looking for experts / specialists / mountain community constituency members interested in joining the new TILCEPA Mountain Social Policy Specialist Group. TILCEPA Mountain Social Policy SG is intended to study and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Saving Rwanda forests by 2035 becomes a national priority]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[At the launch of the United Nations International Year of Forests, the Rwandan minister of land and the environment, Stanislas Kamanzi, announced a forest landscape restoration initiative, being the first developing country making such a commitment nationally. The situation is urgent as in 1994 after the genocide large part of the protected areas, such as the Akagera and the Gishwati [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women of the Mountains Conference ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Event
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The second international conference, &ldquo;Women of the Mountains&rdquo; was held in Orem, Utah, 8-9 March 2011. It was organized in the context of the Mountain Partnership by Utah Valley University, the Mountain Partnership member who also organized the first such conference in 2007. The conference aimed to raise awareness and promote action on gender issues and sustainable mountain [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[XIth Alpine Conference - 8 - 9 March 2011, Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The XIth Alpine Conference will take place on 8 and 9 March 2011 in Brdo pri Kranju (Slovenia). The Alpine Conference is the political decision-making organ of the Alpine Convention and consists of the Ministers of the Alpine States. Meetings of the Conference are normally held every two years by the Member State holding the Presidency of the Convention (one [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Major Donor Fundraiser Post at CIPRA International – applications by 16 March 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The &ldquo;Commission Internationale pour la Protection des Alpes&rdquo;(CIPRA) is looking for a Major Donor Fundraiser to be based in Schaan in the Principality of Liechtenstein. The incumbent will work with the management and will be responsible for planning and implementing all activities in the area of Major Donors. Several years of experience as Major Donor Fundraising as well as a [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Alpine Climate Change Day - 30 - 31 March 2011, Turin, ITALY]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Conference "Alpine Climate Change Day" organized by the Italian Ministry for the Environment together with the Institute for Timber Plants and for the Environment (IPLA) and the Piedmont delegation of the National Union of Mountain Communities, Municipalities and Authorities (UNCEM Piemonte), in the framework of the MANFRED Project (EU Alpine Space Programme) will take place on 30 - [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International workshop on Indigenous Peoples, Marginalized Populations and Climate Change – Call for papers by 18 March 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[An international workshop on Indigenous Peoples, Marginalized Populations and Climate Change: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Traditional Knowledgehas will be convened by United Nations University (UNU), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in collaboration with the Mexican National Institute of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pre-Doctoral Fellowships in African Climate Change and Political Stability – send applications by 31 March 2011]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134642/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Deadline for African Climate Change and Political Stability (CCAPS) pre-doctoral fellowship have been extended to 31 March 2011. The CCAPS programme at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin will offer up to three pre-doctoral fellowships for the 2011-2012 academic year to advanced PhD students, with preference given to those who have made substantial [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Distance learning programme on “Science and Policy of Climate Change” – registrations by 31 March 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), and World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) have jointly developed an eight-week blended distance learning programme on &ldquo;Science and Policy of Climate Change&rdquo;. The programme targets graduate students, development practitioners, policy makers, corporates, and mid-level professionals in the Asia Pacific region. Registration closes by 31 March [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ICCC-1 "Clean Energy & Energy Security" Call for Papers – submission by 30 June 2011]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134644/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Engineering Staff College of India (ESCI) invites to submit papers for the International Conclave on Climate Change (ICCC-1) "Clean Energy &amp; Energy Security" that will take place on 12 -14 Oct 2011. Topics for contributions include Energy Conservation, Clean Technologies, Climate Change and Solar Energy, micro investment in Green Energy in developing countries, International Policy Framework and India National [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dr Poul Engberg-Pedersen appointed new IUCN Deputy Director General ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dr Poul Engberg-Pedersen has been nominated IUCN Deputy Director General and he will join IUCN on 16 May 2011. During 2005-2010, Poul Engberg-Pedersen was Director General of Norad, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has worked for the United Nations in Africa and for the World Bank. He also headed a Danish government [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reports by the Drylands Coordination Group (DCG) online]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reports based on action research by the Drylands Coordination Group (DCG) are online for free download. DCG is a Norwegian NGO that supports and facilitates mutual exchange of practical experiences between African NGOs and research and policy-making institutions. The reports deal with a range of issues related to food security, climate change, agricultural biodiversity, land, gender.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNECE/FAO Regional Forest Information Week - 21-25 March 2011, Geneva, Switzerland]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[From 21 to 25 March 2011 the UNECE/FAO Regional Forest Information Week will take place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. A series of events and meetings regarding information on forests and forest products in the UNECE region will be featured, including a seminar on the State of Forests in the North American and Pan-European region as well [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MRD's Call for Papers on “Central Asian Mountain Societies in Transition” – abstracts by 31 March 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Research and Development (MRD) Journal in collaboration with University of Central Asia&rsquo;s Mountain Societies Research Centre has launched a call for papers regarding practices and systems relevant to the economic, political and environmental changes occurring in Central Asian mountain societies. The articles could cover topics such as sustainable land management approaches and technologies in mountain areas, agro-pastoralism in [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fourth summer IPROMO course on Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Management in Mountain Areas ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The overall purpose of the fourth summer IPROMO course on Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Management in Mountain Areas is to provide post-graduate students, researchers and technicians with scientific knowledge about natural hazards in mountain areas, the high vulnerability of mountain communities and to enhance their ability to assess potential ecological and social impacts of disaster risk management policies. It [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women at the Center of Climate-friendly Approaches to Agriculture and Water – New IATP Paper ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new paper from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) on women&rsquo;s contribution to climate-friendly approaches to agriculture and water is now online. The author Shiney Varghese examined proven agricultural practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen resilience to climate change through the case study of the Tamilnadu Women&rsquo;s Collective in India. The author will also present [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Documentary on line on Mawphlang Agrobiodiversity and Food Festival Film]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A documentary on the Mawphlang Agrobiodiversity and Food Festival, prepared by iTALK Production, a group of indigenous youth based in Shillong, India training in mass communication and funded by Slow Food International, is now online. The Mawphlang Agrobiodiversity and Food Festival, sponsored by the Indigenous Partnership, was organized by William Boy&rsquo;s Home of Mawphlang and it took place on 17 [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Graduates' Workshop on Wetlands in Nepal - 2 February 2011, Kathmandu]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the World Wetlands Day, Graduates&rsquo; Workshop on Wetlands was jointly organized by The Small Earth Nepal (SEN) and the Central Department of Environmental Science (CDES), Tribhuvan University with the support of WWF Nepal, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) and National Lake Conservation Development Committee (NLCDC) on 2 February 2011 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Wetlands conservation [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Course on Straw Buildings - 28 - 31 March 2011, Ormea, Italy]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134656/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Municipality of Ormea (Italy) in cooperation with the IPROMO School and the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Turin, is organizing a set of lectures on &ldquo;Straw buildings&rdquo;, to take place from 28 to 31 March 2011. The course includes theoretical and practical lessons. Deadline for registration is 28 February 2011. Further information as well as the registration [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Launch of the International Year of Forests – Celebrating Forests for People 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Year of Forests was officially launched on 2 February 2011, at the General Assembly Hall in New York City during UNFF9 (24 January &ndash; 4 February 2011). Forests cover 31% of total land area and they are home to 300 million people around the world. The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AINSA fair of Pyrenees products - 4-5 February 2011, Oloron, France]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A two-day fair to promote typical products and the natural and cultural heritage of Pyrenees Mountains is being organized by the Association of World Mountain Population (AINSA) to take place on 4 and 5 February 2011 in Oloron, FRANCE. During the day a European project addressing sustainable development of mountain areas will be launched. Registration form and schedule programme are [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Conference on East African Mountains - 21- 23 November 2011, Uganda]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The first conference on East African Mountains will take place on 21- 23 November 2011 at Mbale Resort Hotel in UGANDA. Mountains of East Africa including highlands of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda suffer from increasing land pressure coupled with climate change which threatens sustainable use of these mountain ecosystems. The conference will gather together scientists, practitioners, policy makers, and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Third issue of International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme's Global Change magazine]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The third issue of International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme's (IGBP) Global Change magazine is out now. Articles in this issue focus on a range of topics, including the UN's Global Sustainability Panel, South American palaeoclimate, Geoengineering and Ocean Acidification. The regulars include news from the IGBP and global-change communities. The magazine is available in PDF format following the link here below. Printed [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Joto Afrika 5: Implications of climate change for health in Africa]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Issue 5 of &ldquo;Joto Afrika&rdquo; features articles from different countries which highlight the impacts of climate change on health across Africa. Climate change affect human health both directly, by encouraging the production of disease vectors and parasites such as those causing malaria, than indirectly (impacts on water availability, air quality, food quality and quantity, ecosystems, agriculture and economies). Joto Afrika [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Center for People and Forest (RECOFTC) - Executive Director and other vacancies ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Center for People and Forest (RECOFTC) is currently looking for a new Executive Director to be based at the headquarters in Bangkok. RECOFTC (www.recoftc.org) is an international not-for-profit organization that specializes in capacity building for community forestry and devolved forest management. The organization focuses since 20 years on capacity building in six countries (Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[WSSCC's Global Sanitation Fund programme in Nepal seeks sub-grantees – by 28 January 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlement Programme), the Executing Agency for the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC - http://www.wsscc.org/gsf), is seeking expressions of interest for potential sub-grantees to carry out field work for its Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) programme in NEPAL. UN-Habitat will implement the hygiene and sanitation programme in five districts (Arghakhanchi, Bajura, Bardiya, Sindhupalchowk and Sunsari), and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women's Water Fund Call for Applications – visit/study in Denmark 30 April – 15 May 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Women&rsquo;s Water Fund, an initiative of the DHI (Danish Hydraulic Institute) Group initially funded by the &ldquo;King Hassan II Great World Water Prize&rdquo;, invites women from developing countries in Africa, Asia or Latin America to apply for a short capacity building visit from 30 April to 15 May 2011, Denmark. The visit is a combination of formal training and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fellowships in African climate science – applications by 4 February 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The DFID-Hadley Centre Climate Science Research Partnership (CSRP) has launched a Call for Applications for fellowships in African climate science. Three types of fellowship are available: Postgraduate Research Fellowships, Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Applications Project Fellowships. Applicants must be resident nationals of an African country and the fellowship must be hosted at an African Institute. The deadline for applications is [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[One day- workshop on Mountain – 8 February 2011, CNR, Rome, ITALY]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A one-day workshop on mountain issues will be organized by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) to take place on 8 February 2011, at Aula Convegni of CNR in Rome. The workshop is intended as an occasion to share experiences and to raise awareness on the need of a National Programme of Research on Mountain. Institutional representatives and various stakeholders [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[“Nature & Faune” Magazine calls for submissions – by 31 March 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The &ldquo;Nature &amp; Faune&rdquo; Magazine invites to submit manuscript(s) on successes, problems and concerns related to the theme: &ldquo;Economic and social significance of forests for Africa&rsquo;s sustainable development&rdquo;, by 31 December 2011. To receive a copy of the 'Guidelines for Authors', please send an email to nature-faune@fao.org or Ada.Ndesoatanga@fao.org. &ldquo;Nature &amp; Faune" is a peer-reviewed open access international bilingual (English [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Three quarters of the Alpine glaciers could melt by 2100, says study by Nature Geoscience ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[According to two studies published by the review Nature Geoscience, the 75 percent of the Alpine glaciers could disappear by the end of 2100 and a rise of several metres in sea level could be produced by 3000, due to the global warming. According to a study carried out by two researchers of the Alaska University, glaciers could lose from [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNICEF internship programme – applications by 21 January 2011]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UNICEF India Country Office invites applications for a full-time Internship programme from 25 May to 3 August 2011. The internship offers an opportunity to explore issues related to child rights in India across a variety of areas: child protection, health, nutrition, education, HIV/AIDS, and water and sanitation. The assignment involves a combination of desk and field work, with interns being [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[THESARD PRIZE 2011 for a Thesis on Mountain Areas – send CVs and summaries by 15 January 2011]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134672/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Thesard Prize 2011 launched by the Mountain Chambers of Commerce and Industry will award 5,000 Euros to the author of a thesis on mountain areas. An international multidisciplinary Scientific Committee will be in charge of the evaluation. The prize will be given at the 4th European Biennial Event of Highland Regions, on 13 October 2011, in G&eacute;rardmer (Vosges - [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Glaciers in South America and Alaska melting faster than those in Europe, says new UNEP report]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The new report entitled "High Mountain Glaciers and Climate Change - Challenges to Human Livelihoods and Adaptation" compiled by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in partnership with scientists and research centres from around the world, was released on 7 December 2010 at the COP16 in Canc&uacute;n, Mexico. Glaciers in Patagonia, followed by those in Alaska have overall been losing mass [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SWOMM 2010 – Transport & Environment in Mountain Areas]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Event
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The Scientific Workshop on Mountain Mobility and Transport (SWOMM) is an initiative promoted by the Italian Ministry for the Environment since 2005. This year the Mountain Partnership Secretariat worked in cooperation with the SWOMM Scientific Secretariat for the organization of the day, within the framework of the AlpCheck 2 Project of the Alpine Space ETC Programme. SWOMM 2010 [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Mountain Day]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The United Nations General Assembly has designated 11 December, from 2003 onwards, as &ldquo;International Mountain Day&rdquo;. It is observed every year with a different theme relevant to sustainable mountain development.This year&rsquo;s International Mountain Day&rsquo;s purpose "Mountain minorities and indigenous peoples". This day aims to highlight the threats faced by these communities but also to acknowledge the invaluable contribution they can [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Norway gives $12 million for adaptation and assessment in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Norway will provide more than US$12 million over five-years to a consortium of partners led by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) to support a new programme in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas. Erik Solhem, Norway's Minister of the Environment and International Development, made the announcement at a press conference held at COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico. The &lsquo;Hindu-Kush-Himalayas Climate [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AD Partners High Level REDD Event with SG Ban Ki-moon]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation Partners will present an afternoon of discussions with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. The event "Advancing REDD+: New Pathways and Partnerships" will be held Wednesday, 8 December 2010, from 3:00-5:45 p.m. at JW Marriot Hotel, Blvd. Kukulcan, Canc&uacute;n and will include discussions around the following themes: Innovative International REDD+ Partnerships, California as the word's First REDD Compliance Market, Sustainable [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNFCCC COP 16: Mountain Partnership Side Events]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Event
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The side event &ldquo;Adapting to the impacts of climate change in mountain areas: Innovative approaches at local and national level,&rdquo; was organized jointly by the governments of Chile and Peru in the context of the Mountain Partnership and focused on sharing positive experiences and innovative examples of adaptation to climate change in mountain regions. While Chile and Peru [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CALL FOR PAPERS for the International Conference "Women of the mountains" – by 30 December 2010]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Conference "Women of the mountains", organized by Utah Valley University and the Kyrgyz National Center for the Development of Mountain Regions, will take place on 8-9 March 2011 in Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah. The organizers are inviting scholarly submissions on topics related to women's lives in mountainous areas, including: Transmission of values, heritage and culture, Women and [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly on “Mountain hydrology: Observations, processes and models” - 3– 8 April 2011, Vienna]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The forthcoming European Geosciences Union General Assembly (HS2.12) will take place in Vienna on 3 to 8 April 2011. Contributions on mountain hydrology related issues are welcomed from all mountain regions of the world. Deadline for the abstract submission through EGU's online system is 10 January 2011. For financial support applications, please refer to http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2011/support_and_distinction by 3 December 2010.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Research and Development, Volume 30, Issue 4 (November 2010) available online and open access]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The current issue of MRD is available online and free of charge from BioOne. It contains work on various topics relevant to sustainable development in mountains, ranging from tourism and impacts of tourism to biodiversity in relation to human activities, poverty and food security, livestock production, and interaction between indigenous communities and the corporate world.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vacancy: Senior Technical Coordinator - Climate Change Adaptation, AIT-UNEP RRC.AP, Bangkok, THAILAND – applications by 10 December 2010 ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/news/news-detail/en/c/134748/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia is recruiting a Senior Technical Coordinator in Climate Change Adaptation to start on 17 January 2011. This Regional Platform is a joint initiative of SENSA, SEI, UNEP and UNEP RRC.AP aimed at facilitating climate change adaptation in Asia at local, national and regional levels and at strengthening adaptive capacity. The person will [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CBD CoP 10 Mountain Biological Diversity: Mountain Partnership Side Event ]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/142603/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Event
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The Mountain Partnership side event held during the CBD COP 10 explored how to facilitate a more effective implementation of the Programme of Work on Mountain Biological Diversity. The COP has established seven thematic programmes of work which correspond to some of the major biomes on the planet and &ldquo;mountains&rdquo; are one of those. Douglas McGuire, Coordinator of [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Side Event “Sustainable Mobility in Mountain Areas”]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Event
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The Side Event &ldquo;Sustainable Mobility in Mountain Areas&rdquo; was held at the 18 session of the United Nation Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD18), in New York on 12th May, 2010. The panelists, Mattia Poretti (Swiss Development Cooperation), Margrete Sagevik (International Union of Railways), Filippo Dal Fiore (MIT Senseable Cities Lab) Piercarlo Sandei (UNEP), and Luca Cetara (SWOMM Scientific [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Biodiversity and Global Change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The present brochure, published by the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) of DIVERSITAS, Institute of Botany, University of Basel with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), has been prepared as a contribution to the International Year of Biodiversity 2010 and the Conference of Parties of the CBD (COP10) in Japan in October 2010. In this [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly Resolution: Sustainable Mountain Development (2010)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161474/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on Sustainable mountain development at the 64th Session. A/RES/64/205]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountains and Climate Change, from Understanding to Action]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/142497/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountains provide freshwater to half of the world&rsquo;s population and are home to half of all global biodiversity hotspots, but they are also among the regions most sensitive to climate change. The authors of this publication, aim to create awareness about potential changes and related challenges for global development, and to promote practical action in the face of the manifold [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[COP15 Copenhagen Side Event: Mountains of the World]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Event
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The side event &ldquo;Mountains of the World: Addressing Climate Change through Sustainable Mountain Development&rdquo; was organized by the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Mountain Partnership and the Mountain Research Initiative. This side event highlighted the vulnerability of mountain regions and communities to climate change, and presented adaptation experiences and priorities from these [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[WFC: Mountain Partnership Event]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/142616/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Event
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The session "Mountain forest products and livelihoods'', co-organized by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, FAO, TMI and Condesan, will be held during the Thirteenth World Forestry Congress (XIII WFC) themed &ldquo;Forests in Development: A Vital Balance,&rdquo; co-organized by FAO and the Government of Argentina, on 23 October 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Mountain Partnership side event, will be [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly Resolution: Sustainable Mountain Development (2009)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161472/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Resolution adopted by the General Assembly at the 64th Session. A/C/64/L]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly Report: Sustainable Mountain Development (2009)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161467/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Sustainable mountain development - Report of the Secretary-General at the 64th Session. A/64/222]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountains: energy, water and food for life.]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/142627/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The international conference &ldquo;Mountains: energy, water and food for life. The SHARE project: understanding the impacts of climate change&rdquo; has been organized in Milan on May 27-28, by the EvK2Cnr Committee, Milan Municipality-Commission for Mobility, Transportation and the Environment, Milan-Expo 2015 Committee, CNR-Italian National Research Council, in collaboration with UNEP and with the technical cooperation of FAO. The conference gathered [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CSD 17 Partnerships Fair working session]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/events/event-detail/en/c/142636/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Event
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The Mountain Partnership Working Session, &lsquo;Promoting mountain economies: high value, high quality products for better lives&rsquo;, will be held on 6 May 2009 as side event at Seventeenth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, in New York. The working session aims to provide participants of the event with information about the potential of a value chain [...]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly Report: Sustainable development: sustainable mountain development (2007)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161470/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Sustainable development: sustainable mountain development - Report of the Second Committee at the 62nd Session. A/62/419/Add.8]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly Report: Sustainable mountain development (2007)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161473/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Sustainable mountain development - Report of the Secretary-General at the 62nd Session. A/62/292]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly Resolution: Sustainable Mountain Development (2006)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161493/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on Sustainable mountain development at the 60th Session. A/RES/60/198]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly Report: Sustainable mountain development (2005)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161486/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Sustainable mountain development - Report of the Secretary-General to the 60th Session. A/60/309]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Millennium Ecosystem  Assessment: Mountain Systems (2005)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161587/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Millennium Ecosystem&nbsp; Assessment: Mountain Systems]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Organization, Membership and Governance (2004)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161463/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain Partnership Organization, Membership and Governance. This document was developed through a consultative process with the members of the Mountain Partnership and finalized in July 2004.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Declaration of the Andes (2004)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161465/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Declaration of the Andes, 29 October 2004 was adopted during the Second Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership in Cuzco, Peru.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Cuzco Framework for Action (2004)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Framework for Action from the Second Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership in Cuzco, Peru - 2004]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly Resolution: Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions (2004)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Resolution adopted by the General Assembly at the 58th Session: Sustainable development in mountain regions. A/RES/58/216]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conclusions of the First Global Meeting of Members of the International Partnership for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions (2003)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Letter dated 17 October 2003 from the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General: Conclusions of the First Global Meeting of Members of the International Partnership for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions in Merano, Italy. A/C.2/58/8]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Quito Declaration Charter for World Mountain People (2003)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The representatives of Mountain Territories from forty countries met on 20 September 2002 in Quito (Ecuador) taking into account the declarations issued at preparatory meetings of Achocalla (August 2002, Bolivia) and Yuksam (April 2002, India), adopted the main points of the following declaration during the 2nd World Meeting of Mountain Populations.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly Report: International Year of Mountains (2002)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[International Year of Mountains, 2002 - Note by the Secretary-General at the 58th Session. A/58/134]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly Resolution: International Year of Mountains (2002)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Resolution adopted by the General Assembly in the 57th Session on International Year of Mountains, 2002. A/RES/57/245]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bishkek Mountain Platform (2002)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161535/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The Bishkek Global Mountain Summit in Kyrgyzstan marked the final global event of the International Year of Mountains. The "Bishkek Mountain Platform", a framework for action which contains recommendations for sustainable mountain development, was adopted at the summit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thimphu Declaration of the Celebrating Mountain Women Conference (2002)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 2002, ICIMOD organized the international conference &lsquo;Celebrating Mountain Women&lsquo; in Bhutan, as the only global event during the International Year of Mountains to focus on mountain women in the context of sustainable mountain development. It brought together 250 participants from 35 countries around the world. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) - Mountains]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mountain paragraphs (pp. 33-4, chapter 42) in the Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) A/CONF.199/20]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bali Concept Document on International Partnership for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions (2002)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Bali Concept Document on an International Partnership for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions&nbsp; was adopted during the 4th Session of the Preparatory Committee Meeting for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Bali, Indonesia, on 3 June 2002.
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Managing fragile ecosystems: sustainable mountain development (1992)]]></title>
<link>http://www.mountainpartnership.org/publications/publication-detail/en/c/161503/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Managing fragile ecosystems: sustainable mountain development: United Nations Conference on Environment &amp; Development, Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992, AGENDA 21, Chapter 13.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 1992 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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