Biodiversity
International Mountain Day 2023eventRestoring mountain ecosystems is the theme of this year's International Mountain Day on 11 December. This theme was selected to fully include mountains in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030, co-led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and the UN Environment Programme. The Decade is an opportunity to...
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7th International Plant Functional Traits CourseeventThe 7th International Plant Functional Traits Course (PFTC) will be held on 1-19 December 2023, at the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa. PFTCs offer hands-on training in applications of plant functional trait ecology within a real-life field research project setting. During this course, students will collect and explore plant functional trait...
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UN Food Systems Stocktaking MomenteventOn behalf of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, Antonio Tajani, announced today the UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment, will take place in Rome, Italy from 24 – 26 July...
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Call for grant proposals for the Business Incubator and Accelerator for Mountains and Islands, deadline extended to 7 June 2023newsThe deadline to submit project proposals for grants through the Business Incubator and Accelerator (BIA) for Mountains and Islands has been extended to 7 June 2023. The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Global Environment Facility Small Grants...
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Meet the Steering Committee: GRID-Arendal, Representative of Global Major Group OrganizationsnewsThe Mountain Partnership is guided by an 18-member Steering Committee that represents the diversity of the entire membership and ensures geographic representation. A new Steering Committee is elected approximately every four years. Most recently, elections were held in September 2022 during the sixth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership. In this new series, we...
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Addressing the Loss of Biodiversity in the Alpine region: Exchange on Implementation of National, European and Global Biodiversity StrategieseventThe Alpine Biodiversity Board of the Alpine Convention and the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation are organizing an online international exchange workshop on 17 April 2023, from 14.00 to 17.45 CEST, titled "Addressing the Loss of Biodiversity in the Alpine region: Exchange on Implementation of National, European and Global...
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