Latin America
The 2012 course of the International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO) summarized the state of the art on the relationship between mountains and climate change adaptation and mitigation. Likewise, the most important international agreements reached in order to stabilize greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations, such as the United Nations...
Knowledge and Data Sharing Coordinator: The International Center for Tropical Agriculture – CIAT, is one of the 15 not-for-profit Centers funded by various countries, private foundations, international and regional organizations that make up the CGIAR Consortium a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future (...
A new report is available now in the Mountain Pavilion website. This is the "Sustainable Mountain Development Green Economy and Institutions: From Rio 1992 to Rio 2012 and beyond. Global Report 2012 - Final Draft for Rio 2012".
This report presents the key role that mountain societies and resources play in the global green economy. It illustrates the manifold opportunities that mountain...
In the ELLA Programme they have systematized, analysed and produced development knowledge of evidence and lessons from Latin America in selected themes in environmental management, economic development and governance.
They have recently published a set of knowledge materials about Latin America’s efforts in climate change adaptation in mountain ecosystems. In the ...
5 Septmber 2012. WASHINGTON—For the past four decades scientists have monitored the ebbs and flows of the icefields in the southernmost stretch of South America’s vast Andes Mountains, detecting an overall loss of ice as the climate warms. A new study, however, finds that the rate of glacier thinning has increased by about half over the last dozen years in the...
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