International leaders and mountain champions will discuss the key role women play in environmental protection and social and economic sustainable development in mountain areas, during high-level celebrations of International Mountain Day (IMD) 2022 on Friday, 9 December and Monday, 12 December 2022. The focus of this year’s IMD, “Women move mountains”, highlights...
The Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) of the United Nations General Assembly approved the new resolution on sustainable mountain development on 22 November 2022 during its seventy-seventh session. The resolution, which was co-sponsored by 110 States, discusses the social, environmental and economic statuses of mountain peoples and ecosystems and...
Delegates from 97 mountain countries around the world endorsed the revised Advocacy and Communication strategies as well as the Governance Paper of the Mountain Partnership and Aspen Declaration during the Sixth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership in Aspen, United States of America. The Mountain Partnership is the United Nations voluntary...
A series of side events at COP27 provided an opportunity to discuss how to strengthen participation of mountain people in national and international policy processes and called for greater climate adaptation following scientific recommendations. Mountain Partnership members from across the world called for an increased coordinated support...

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30.11.2022

COP15 should protect mountain landscapes, says new IIED publication

COP15 should protect mountain landscapes, says new IIED publication

The new global biodiversity framework (GBF) due to be agreed at negotiations known as COP15 in Montreal in December, and aimed at halting and reversing the loss of nature, needs to protect biodiversity-rich mountain landscapes and the Indigenous People and local communities that govern them, according to a new...

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29.11.2022

Fifth GROW training concludes, 31 students join alumni network

Fifth GROW training concludes, 31 students join alumni network

The fifth annual GROW – Agrobiodiversity in a changing climate course concluded earlier this month. The two-week course held online from 15–25 November, included lecturers from the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, Sapienza University of Rome Department of Environmental Biology, and IFOAM Organics International. The 31 students from 20 countries that...

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