North America
GLOBE Foundation and United Nations Environment Programme Sparking Global Conversation on ‘Road to Rio+20’
The GLOBE Foundation is pleased to collaborate with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) to offer multiple platforms for thinking, dialogue and action by the worldwide financial services and investment community in the run...
HERE you are going to find a report that the Aspen International Mountain Foundation (AIMF) and the Telluride Institute prepared for Rio+20 on sustainable mountain development in North America.
In late October, when AIMF and the Telluride Institute learned that...
This report begins with brief descriptions of North America’s major mountain ranges. Next, it explores some of the critical issues they face. The 11 themes discussed are:
- water
- glaciers
- minerals
- biodiversity
- climate change
- encroachment/wildland-urban interface
- conservation/protected areas
- recreation/ecotourism
- mountain...
Green For All is a national organization working to build an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Their mission is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through a clean energy economy. We work in collaboration with the business, government, labor, and grassroots communities to create and implement programs that increase quality jobs and...
International Mountain Day is an opportunity to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and to build partnerships that will bring positive change to the world’s mountains and highlands.
The United Nations General Assembly has designated 11 December, from 2003...
News and Views from the 3rd International Forum and Water and Food
It is no secret that food security depends on water security and that climate change is impacting on both. The question is whether these issues will be addressed at the UNFCCC COP17?Is there still time to have them feature on the COP17 agenda? Belynda Petrie, CEO of One World,provides...
The United Nations General Assembly has designated 11 December, from 2003 onwards, as the “International Mountain Day”. The occasion is observed each year with a different theme relevant to sustainable mountain development. In order to ensure the link and the contribution to the International Year of Forests, the theme for the International Mountain Day 2011 is “...
The 3rd International Forum on Water and Food was opened with an African drum roll on November 14th. The Forum offers something for everyone.
The Forum will bring together more than 300 CPWF partners (from more than 50 organizations), policy makers, development professionals and other key stakeholders to assess the very relevance of its research-for-development (R4D...
The World Health Organization (WHO) lists indoor air pollution (IAP) (1) from primitive household cooking fires as the leading environmental cause of death in the world, as it contributes to nearly 2.0 million deaths annually (2)—more deaths than are caused each year by malaria. Almost half of the planet lives in poverty, and those households generally use biomass (wood, crop...
In the framework of the Mountain Partership Consortium their members, thanks to an invitation of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, want to share this message and invite you to participate. The objective of this process is to provide guidance to Member States and other stakeholders in responding to the invitation from Second Preparatory Committee “to provide their inputs and...
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