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Climate change can seem like a remote problem for our leaders, but the fact is that it's already impacting real people, animals, and beloved places. These Faces of Climate Change are multiplying every day. Fortunately, other Faces of Climate Change are multiplying too: those stepping up to do something about it. Help us personalize the massive challenge climate change presents by taking a...
After the success of the photo contest of 2012, with over 3.000 photographers from almost 100 different countries participating, the Kiku. International Mountain Summit starts a new edition, launching the IMS Photo Contest 2013.
The motto is Mountain.Lights&Shadows. Where there is light, there must be shadow. The IMS is looking for pictures where the...
Ils portent costume et cravate, débattent de questions pointues en anglais et ont adopté à l'issue de quatre jours de débats dix résolutions sur la " Ville des Alpes de l'avenir " : 80 jeunes de tous les pays alpins ont discuté du 12 au 15 mars à Sonthofen sur le thème de l'avenir durable pour les générations futures dans les communes. Ils réclament notamment la création d'un plan de mobilité...
Grâce à son expérience de réseau dépassant les frontières linguistiques, culturelles, géographiques et politiques, la CIPRA a déjà obtenu quelques succès. Dans son tout dernier rapport annuel, elle a choisi pour figures centrales des personnes qui militent depuis sa création en 1952 pour la protection et le développement soutenable des Alpes. La direction de CIPRA International est...
“The magnitude of the global freshwater crisis and the risks associated with it, have been greatly underestimated. One billion people on earth are without reliable supplies of water and more than 2 billion people lack basic sanitation. Water is critical to the attainment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals whose targets are set to expire in 2015.” (U.N Water Security...
Wild Rodopi is an independent Bulgarian NGO conducting wildlife research and conservation projects in the Rhodope (Rodopi) Mountains. As well as collecting biological records and monitoring the exceptionally rich biodiversity of the Rhodope Mountains, we also work for the preservation of rural heritage in the region, acknowledging the crucial role that non-intensive...
Lecco : la ville pose les jalons d’une politique urbaine durable
Lecco a inauguré le 5 avril son année de Ville des Alpes. Une délégation du Parlement des Jeunes de la Convention alpine était présente. Jeunes et représentants des Villes des Alpes ont lancé des initiatives communes pour un avenir durable dans les Villes alpines.
« Le titre de Ville des...
On 8-19 April, the UN Forum on Forest 10 (UNFF) will gather the world community to focus on some of the pressing issues at stake to secure healthy forests worldwide. Jan McAlpine, Director of the UN Forum on Forest Secretariat, shared some of her hopes for this major event and beyond, in an exclusive DESA News interview.
Forests cover one third of the Earth’s land mass,...
Sustainable Agriculture and the World Food System | 11-25 August 2013 | Rheinau, Switzerland
The ETH Zurich World Food System Center is pleased to announce the call for applications for this year’s summer school on “Sustainable Agriculture and the World Food System”. The two week intensive academic program will be hosted on the Gut Rheinau, one of Switzerlands largest organic farms...
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