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The Climate Himalaya, will formally launch its Mountain Voice project during the Indian Mountain Initiative summit being held on 25-26 May 2012 at Gangtok, Sikkim in India. ‘Mountain Voice’ is a media initiative of Climate Himalaya (CHI) that captures the experiences, thoughts and opinions of people, practitioners, policy makers and researchers on various climate linked issues in the Himalayan...
Recognizing the knowledge gap between the existing evidence of climate change and adaptation on the ground, CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) South Asia launched a novel learning platform to improve agricultural resilience to changing weather patterns, and to reduce emissions footprint. The platform aims to encourage communication between policymakers,...
Bala Vikasa PDTC is extremely happy to announce two week-long Capacity Building Program with Field Exposure in “Community Driven Development” (CDD). This program is scheduled from 16 – 28th July, 2012 at Bala Vikasa PDTC Premises.
The course consists of both theoretical and practical aspects of various approaches and tools of community development. The...
Some weeks ago more than 300 climate change specialists from 60 countries gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam for the 6th Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change.
The meeting, organised by IIED and partners, included three days of...
The Global Programme on Climate Change (GPCC) of Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC) is based on common interests and shared investments and costs between India and Switzerland in the area of climate change viz. climate change adaptation (including food security and sustainable agriculture), climate resilient development, energy efficiency and renewable energy. The Swiss Agency for...
The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the report of the centralized review of the 2011 annual submission of Turkey (FCCC/ARR/2011/TUR), which shows that total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions increased by 97.6% between 1990 and 2009.
The centralized review was undertaken by the Expert Review Team (ERT), which concluded that the preparation and reporting of Turkey’s inventory submission was...
ICIMOD is pleased to announce the release of a new publication, ICIMOD Working Paper 2012/2, ‘Mountain Biodiversity Conservation and Management: Selected examples of good practices and lessons learned from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region’.
This publication presents 15 case studies solicited by ICIMOD during the International Year of Biodiversity 2010....
In cooperation with UNDP, the Government of Brazil is inviting you to join and contribute to Rio+20 Dialogues on Sustainable Development.
Brazil is convening a Dialogue series with the aim of bringing together civil society, the scientific community and academia to contribute ideas and suggestions on sustainable development. Conclusions and recommendations from the...
With the collaboration of strategic international partners, the Government of Peru is leading the organization of the Mountain Pavilion at Rio+20. The initiative aims to showcase achievements and progress towards sustainable development in mountain regions to representatives of 191 countries and civil society present at the conference.
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