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In the most vulnerable regions of our planet, the impacts of extreme weather events such as floods and droughts threaten lives and livelihoods. The most affected regions include large deltas, small islands, and exposed coastal regions, as well as arid and semiarid lands, and areas affected by glacier and permafrost melt. The Resilience Academy will provide a platform for connecting communities of...
Apply now for the Sustainable Energy Finance Summer Academy in Mombasa, Kenya (20 – 25 October 2013)
The Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance extends its 2013’s summer programme once again to offer a Sustainable Energy Finance Summer Academy with a strong African focus, this time in Mombasa, Kenya from the 20 – 25 October 2013! Through an innovative combination of practical and theoretical coursework, the Centre's Summer...
From 2nd-5th December 2013, about 200 young people from both the African region and international will gather in Nairobi for the 1st Regional Youth Green Growth Forum. Under theme, “Harnessing the Potential of Youth as Partners for Inclusive Green Growth and Climate Resilience,” the forum will unleash the potential of young people and provide them with knowledge and skills to...
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 Institute of Forestry/Tribhuvan University, is organizing the International Conference on Forests, People and Climate: Changing Paradigm in collaboration with the Department of Forest Research and Survey/Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, Nepal and Forest and Landscape/University of Copenhagen, Denmark with a theme “Forest for livelihood prosperity in the face of climate change.” It...
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. Besides participants from Central European...
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.The deadline for abstract submission is June 30. ...
In the framework of the High Level International Conference on Water Cooperation (www.hlicwc.org), to be held on 20-22 August 2013 in Dushanbe and co-organized by the Government of Tajikistan and the United Nations, scholars from all over the world – young and experienced alike – are warmly invited to submit abstracts or half page concepts in English or Russian of scientific papers, posters,...
QUITO, Jun 4 2013 (IPS) - The “páramos” or high plateaus of Ecuador, a crucial source of water, are showing signs of extreme fragility and a troubling loss of capacity to conserve this vital resource and sustain the survival of numerous species found nowhere else on earth.The páramo is a high mountain ecosystem situated between 3,200 and 4,200 metres above sea level, and one of the most...
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. Scientists can...