The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is supporting the K2 expedition: ‘Women Climbing for Climate Change’. The expedition is being undertaken by a team of three young women...

  The Centre for Climate Change and Disaster Reduction in partnership with Khorog State University, Youth for Mountain Development and the State Committee for Emergency Situations of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast are organizing...

The Mountain Partnership would like to express gratitude to all the mountain enthusiasts who responded to our call for videos. We received a number of fascinating videos about mountain peoples...

At least one billion people, or 14 percent of the world’s population, live in mountain areas of the world and most of these peoples face the risk of food insecurity...

Centre for Environment Education (CEE Himalaya) celebrated International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD) with school children, teachers, local NGOs and community members on 22 May 2014 at several places across the Indian...

Following this week’s Mountain Partnership’s call for action, several members have taken action with their Governments requesting that mountains receive the attention they deserve in the sustainable development goals process. Civil...

Mountain Research and Development (MRD) is seeking policy- and practice-oriented, well-validated insights into the effectiveness of disaster risk reduction and recovery approaches in mountains, as well as papers that present novel research...

The Journal of Alpine Research/Revue de Géographie Alpine has issued a call for papers on “Mountains as global suppliers: New forms of disparities between mountains and the metropolitan nodes” to...

As the final round of discussions on the sustainable development goals (SDG) comes to a close, Mountain Partnership members are rallying support to ensure that recognition of mountains and the...

In March 2014, a severe forest fire took place on the southeast region of Costa Rica. It spread to the mountains of Chirripó National Park, which are the tallest of...

Learning from the traditional practices and adaptation solutions developed by mountain communities to achieve a sound model for sustainable development was one of the key messages mentioned during a seminar...

The World Mountain Forum held last week gathered around two hundred mountain stakeholders from across the globe to promote concrete action for Sustainable Mountain Development. The global event provided a unique...

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)- with support from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Kathmandu, the Government of Nepal and other partners – has recently released a publication entitled,...

Metsovion Interdisciplinary Research Center (MIRC) of the National Technical University of Athens  (NTUA) Development Foundation is organizing the second documentary film competition on the environment and the integrated development of...

The Bhutan Ecological Society (BES) would like invite all interested national and international scientists and practitioners to submit their manuscripts (PDF only) to [email protected], for consideration for publication in the...

Supported by the Municipality of Dénia, Spain, Culinart, a workshop combining scenic and plastic arts with haute cuisine, showed the link between nature and food on 5-7 May 2014.  A...

The training workshop “Assistance in the reduction of land degradation in mountains territories” for farmers, experts, representatives of local and municipal authorities took place in the Akhangaran area of Uzbekistan’s...

The Lebanon Mountain Trail Association (LMT) completed its six annual, month-long thru-walk on 4 May 2014. The long-distance walk (470 km) started in Marjaayoun, in south Lebanon, and headed north...

On 7-9 May 2014 in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, government officials representing Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Colombia further elaborated an Andean governmental mechanism for the sustainable development of the...

A three-day workshop on ‘Unlocking the potential of youth in context of climate change’  was held  in Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayan Region on 28-30 April 2014. The workshop aimed...