Mountain Partnership @ Rio+20   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...

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...

Mountain Partnership @ Rio+20   Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) A side event on "Sustainable Mountain Development Challenges in Islands: the Global Island Partnership meets the Mountain Partnership" will promote affiliation of mountainous islands

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 “Experiences from the FLEGT/VPA...

  Mountain Partnership @ Rio+20   Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 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...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Recognizing the climatic changes and their impacts in Himalayan Mountains, Prakriti, a mountain environment group (and Mountain Partnership member) based in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand, India founded a Pan-Himalayan initiative called...

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...

  PRESS RELEASE   6 June 2012 / Rome (Italy) Under the slogan “The future we want: mountains as living solutions for development”, more than 50 members of the Mountain Partnership will hold their...

The 29 articles in this issue of ETFRN (European Tropical Forest Research Network) News, produced by Tropenbos International, showcase a rich diversity of examples of how forest governance has been addressed...

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...

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...

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’s environment. The Africa Ecological...

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...

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...