The Joint Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) – World Commission on protected Areas (WCPA) Theme on Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas (TILCEPA) is looking...
At the launch of the United Nations International Year of Forests, the Rwandan minister of land and the environment, Stanislas Kamanzi, announced a forest landscape restoration initiative, being the first...
The XIth Alpine Conference will take place on 8 and 9 March 2011 in Brdo pri Kranju (Slovenia). The Alpine Conference is the political decision-making organ of the Alpine Convention...
The “Commission Internationale pour la Protection des Alpes”(CIPRA) is looking for a Major Donor Fundraiser to be based in Schaan in the Principality of Liechtenstein. The incumbent will work with...
The International Conference "Alpine Climate Change Day" organized by the Italian Ministry for the Environment together with the Institute for Timber Plants and for the Environment (IPLA) and the Piedmont...
Deadline for African Climate Change and Political Stability (CCAPS) pre-doctoral fellowship have been extended to 31 March 2011. The CCAPS programme at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the...
An international workshop on Indigenous Peoples, Marginalized Populations and Climate Change: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Traditional Knowledgehas will be convened by United Nations University (UNU), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),...
The Engineering Staff College of India (ESCI) invites to submit papers for the International Conclave on Climate Change (ICCC-1) "Clean Energy & Energy Security" that will take place on 12...
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), and World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) have jointly developed an eight-week blended distance learning programme...
Dr Poul Engberg-Pedersen has been nominated IUCN Deputy Director General and he will join IUCN on 16 May 2011. During 2005-2010, Poul Engberg-Pedersen was Director General of Norad, the Norwegian...
Reports based on action research by the Drylands Coordination Group (DCG) are online for free download. DCG is a Norwegian NGO that supports and facilitates mutual exchange of practical experiences...
From 21 to 25 March 2011 the UNECE/FAO Regional Forest Information Week will take place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. A series of events and meetings regarding...
The Mountain Research and Development (MRD) Journal in collaboration with University of Central Asia’s Mountain Societies Research Centre has launched a call for papers regarding practices and systems relevant to...
A new paper from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) on women’s contribution to climate-friendly approaches to agriculture and water is now online. The author Shiney Varghese examined...
The overall purpose of the fourth summer IPROMO course on Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Management in Mountain Areas is to provide post-graduate students, researchers and technicians with scientific knowledge...
A documentary on the Mawphlang Agrobiodiversity and Food Festival, prepared by iTALK Production, a group of indigenous youth based in Shillong, India training in mass communication and funded by Slow...
On the occasion of the World Wetlands Day, Graduates’ Workshop on Wetlands was jointly organized by The Small Earth Nepal (SEN) and the Central Department of Environmental Science (CDES), Tribhuvan...
The Municipality of Ormea (Italy) in cooperation with the IPROMO School and the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Turin, is organizing a set of lectures on “Straw buildings”,...
The International Year of Forests was officially launched on 2 February 2011, at the General Assembly Hall in New York City during UNFF9 (24 January – 4 February 2011). Forests...
A two-day fair to promote typical products and the natural and cultural heritage of Pyrenees Mountains is being organized by the Association of World Mountain Population (AINSA) to take place...
