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Sink or Swim: Documentary Awards - Call for Entries
13/06/2012
In collaboration with the Goethe Institute, CGIAR, SIDA, and the Thai Film Foundation, IUCN is organizing the Southeast Asian Students Documentary Awards, a competition to encourage the art of documentary...
Bolivian President Evo Morales Promotes Quinoa Against Food Crisis
12/06/2012
On Monday, Bolivian President Evo Morales praised the quinoa plant, a neglected mountain crop popular among health-conscious foodies, as a way to help solve the global food crisis. "Faced with...
What women want from Rio+20
08/06/2012
As first recognized twenty years ago, at the UN Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio, women have a vital role in environmental management and development. Their full participation...
Andean regional project to strengthen the sustainable mountain development
07/06/2012
The Project "Strengthening participative management for sustainable development of the Andes" aims to strengthen and to extend the institutional framework of mountain within Andean region, improving participative management of resources...
Reflections to Review: Climate Adaptation in Himalaya
07/06/2012
Recognizing the climatic changes and their impacts in Himalayan Mountains, Prakriti, a mountain environment group (and Mountain Partnership member) based in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand, India founded a Pan-Himalayan initiative called...
Where Have All The Hummingbirds Gone?
07/06/2012
The glacier lily, as it is called, is a tall, willowy plant that graces mountain meadows throughout western North America. It flowers early in spring, when the first bumblebees and...
Renewing commitment to mountain development: Mountain Partnership rendez-vous at Rio+20
06/06/2012
  PRESS RELEASE   6 June 2012 / Rome (Italy) Under the slogan “The future we want: mountains as living solutions for development”, more than 50 members of the Mountain Partnership will hold their...
ETFRN News 53: Moving Forward with Forest Governance
06/06/2012
The 29 articles in this issue of ETFRN (European Tropical Forest Research Network) News, produced by Tropenbos International, showcase a rich diversity of examples of how forest governance has been addressed...
Study Finds There’s Still Hope For Himalayan Glaciers
05/06/2012
Previous fears regarding the Himalayan glacier may have been unduly warranted, according to the results of the HIGHNOON (Adaption to changing water resources availability in northern India with Himalayan glacier...
Brazil launches Green Passport Campaign on Eve of World Environment Day
05/06/2012
The Green Passport initiative has been launched by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the government of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. The campaign, which started ahead of World Environment...
Voices from the Waters: 7th International Film Festival on Water
04/06/2012
Bangalore Film Society, in collaboration with Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, SVARAJ, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), Ithaca College, USA), Christ University, Bangalore, VISTHAR, Charter of Human Responsibilities, SAMVADA, Karnataka...
High Pamir/Pamir-Alai Mountains: Transborder Legal Institutions
04/06/2012
The "Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains" GEF/UNEP/UNU Project is located in the transboundary mountain ecosystem shared between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The project was established to...
AfDB and WWF to launch Africa Ecological Footprint Report
04/06/2012
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and global conservation group WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) have launched today a joint report on the state of Africa’s environment. The Africa Ecological...
Bonn UN Climate Change meeting delivers progress on key issues
31/05/2012
Meeting in Bonn for the first time after the historic UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, governments made progress in ensuring that this year’s conference in Doha, at the end...
Malnutrition Increases in South Asia: Cut Climate Change To Cut Hunger!
30/05/2012
According to “Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition”, a joint report by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...
Mountain Voice for change that matters
29/05/2012
Over 200 delegates from Indian eleven mountain States at Gangtok in Sikkim deliberated on mountain issues related to water, livelihoods and Communities & forests of the Indian Himalayan region at...
World Environment Day 2012: UNEP calls for action
29/05/2012
World Environment Day 2012 will be celebrated on 5 June 2012, under the theme "Green Economy: Does it include you?". World Environment Day 2012, hosted by Brazil, will mark the...
Sustainable land and water resources management – empowering dryland populations
28/05/2012
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Luc Gnacadja released an important message on water and land sustainable use. The Millennium Development Goal to halve the...
New Zealand's natural heritage threatened by 20 years of environmental inaction
28/05/2012
Less than a month before world leaders meet at a major environmental summit, a WWF’s report warns that New Zealand is falling short on important commitments made at the Earth...
Countries of the Andean Community approved the Andean Environmental Agenda 2012-2016
28/05/2012
Countries of the Andean Community (Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia) approved the Andean Environmental Agenda for the period 2012-2016 during the VI Ordinary Meeting of the Andean Council of the...