Mountains for the World: Call for Action

Twenty years on from the Rio 1992 meeting (the first “Earth Summit”), participants coming from all regions met in Lucerne on 11 and 12 October 2011 to raise the role of mountains  in the agenda of international development discussions.

Regional reports from different mountain ranges, including the Andes and Hindu-Kush-Himalaya, were presented at the Conference. As a result, mountains will fuel the debate in all the relevant sectors of Rio+20: water, energy, food security, planet monitoring, social issues (with employment, education and culture), risk preparedness.