Mountain Partnership

 

Upcoming events

Events

20/6

2012

Rio+20 and Women’s Lives: a Cross-generational Dialogue
20/06/2012

The Ford Foundation will hold “Rio+20 and Women’s Lives: a Cross-generational Dialogue”, a side event to be held on 20 June 2012, in Rio de Janeiro. At the press briefing,...

18/6

2012

Agriculture and Rural Development Day at Rio+20
18/06/2012

The 4th Agriculture and Rural Development Day will take place on Monday 18 June 2012 at the Sul América Convention Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Food and Agriculture Organization...

18/6

2012

20/6

2012

Experience Sharing and Planning Workshop on Payment Mechanisms for Ecosystem Goods and Services Provided by Rangelands – Testing and Piloting: Call for Papers
18/06/2012 - 20/06/2012

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)...

15/6

2012

International Workshop on Business and Biodiversity
15/06/2012

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...

14/6

2012

Third International Women of the Mountains Conference
14/06/2012

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...

29/5

2012

30/5

2012

Workshop: The Impact of Retreating Glaciers in the Andes - Multidisciplinary International Network for Adaptation Strategies
29/05/2012 - 30/05/2012

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...

28/5

2012

31/5

2012

Ninth International Banana Forum and First International Congress of Biotechnology and Biodiversity
28/05/2012 - 31/05/2012

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...

22/5

2012

26/6

2012

Fourth International African Renewable Energy Alliance (AREA) Conference
22/05/2012 - 26/06/2012

This Conference, organized by the World Future Council and the African Renewable Energy Alliance (AREA) on the theme, “Access to Sustainable Renewable Energy in Africa as Prerequisite for the MDGs”,...

15/5

2012

15/6

2012

IUCN: Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award
15/05/2012 - 15/06/2012

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,...

13/5

2012

17/5

2012

World Renewable Energy Forum & Exhibition (WREF 2012): Em-Powering the World with Renewable Energy
13/05/2012 - 17/05/2012

For the first time, the American Solar Energy Society’s (ASES) National Solar Conference will be held under the same roof with the biennial World Renewable Energy Congress. The combined event...

9/5

2012

12/5

2012

International Conference on Agriculture and Environment (ICAE)
09/05/2012 - 12/05/2012

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...

7/5

2012

9/5

2012

Small Island Developing States Consultation on Sustainable Energy for All
07/05/2012 - 09/05/2012

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...

2/5

2012

4/5

2012

Sustainable Biomass for Electricity Conference (SB4E)
02/05/2012 - 04/05/2012

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...

26/4

2012

27/4

2012

The Role of Science Technology and Innovation in Emerging Economies
26/04/2012 - 27/04/2012

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)....

5/4

2012

6/4

2012

International Conference of Mountain Countries on Climate Change
05/04/2012 - 06/04/2012

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...

13/6

2011

14/6

2011

International Symposium on Pastoralism in Central Asia
13/06/2011 - 14/06/2011

The University of Central Asia (UCA) and the National Centre for Competency in Research North-South (NCCR-NS) co-hosted an International Symposium on “Pastoralism in Central Asia: Status, Challenges and Opportunities in...

6/6

2011

17/6

2011

UN Climate Change Conference June 2011
06/06/2011 - 17/06/2011

Mountain Partnership Event   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...

9/5

2011

Mountain Countries and the Road to Rio +20
09/05/2011

Mountain Partnership Event   In preparation for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – also called the Rio+20 Summit - mountain countries met in New York to join forces and...