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On behalf of WWF and partners, it is my pleasure to invite you to the seminar, “Strengthening the Basis for Water Cooperation across Borders”, which will take place on Sunday, September 1st, in the afternoon, during the 2013 World Water Week.
More details and the program are available...
The UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development hosted by the Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) is pleased to announce that the third International Conference on Technologies for Development: What is Essential? will take place at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland on 4-6 June 2014. The conference – held in English – will offer a high...
The CDM Loan Scheme has already approved 35 loan applications for CDM projects in 21 different countries. The next application phase for the CDM Loan Scheme is closing in less than one week and the last day for submitting applications for this period is the 31st of July 2013. (http...
The Mountain Research Initiative and the DendroLab at the University of Nevada/Reno will hold in Reno a Global Fair and Workshop on Mountain Observatories, examining how we gather data on mountain social, biological and abiotic systems. It will also be an opportunity to visit state-of-the-art observing sites in the Lake Tahoe region of the Sierra Nevada on the border of California and Nevada...
The 1000 mark has been passed. Photographers from more than 80 different countries already participated in the IMS Photo Contest 2013. Breathtaking shots from the most beautiful mountains in the world are part of the photo gallery.
The internationality of the photo contest, as well as of the Kiku. International Mountain Summit increases every year....
We are pleased to inform you that in occasion of the International Conference on Mountains and Climate Change “High Summit”, a poster session for young researchers and students will be organized and the call for abstract is now open. You can find all the details in the attached file and on the official conference web site: www.highsummit.org...
Mountain glaciers are like giant sandpaper blocks, scouring their valley homes as they advance and retreat. This scrubbing tends to purge any past record of a glacier's size, foiling scientists' efforts to model the extent of mountain ice during past climate shifts.
The good news is the sediments scoured from the land by glaciers eventually ends up dumped offshore, in the ocean....
Released today, the 2012 FPP Annual Report marks the final year in which Marcus Colchester has been directing the work of Forest Peoples Programme and sets the stage for Joji Cariño to take over as Director.
In...
Papers in this Open Issue of MRD address diverse key concerns of sustainable mountain development as identified in the final outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Papers in the MountainDevelopment section examine how stakeholder analysis can enhance integrated water management in Uganda and how communication endeavors can improve...
The United Nations Environment Programme, Vienna Office – Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention (UNEP Vienna - ISCC), on behalf of the Big Foot Project partnership, and the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), are pleased to invite you to the conference Intergenerational Learning and Innovation for Sustainable Development, final conference of the project Big Foot....
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