Central-Asia
More than 120 representatives of organizations from across Central Asia and from around the world whose work is dedicated to the concerns of mountain societies and environments, gathered in Dushanbe for the first ever Forum of Mountain Countries taking place in...
As less than a month remains for the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP20) to commence in Lima, Capital of Peru, between December 1 and 12, 2014, a 2-day national conference has concluded with a 9-point Rara Declaration at Rara, Nepal’s...
KATHMANDU: An international conference on climate change, attended by experts from countries including India, today underlined the need to install more stations across Himalayas so as to receive benefits from the early warning system in case of climate-change induced disasters.
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(15 October 2014, Thimphu, Bhutan and Kathmandu, Nepal)
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen launched the National Geospatial Portal during the Bhutan GIS Expo in Thimphu on Monday. The National Geospatial Portal will serve as a gateway for users across Bhutan to discover, access, and...
Karakoram snowfall is less sensitive to global warming than the Himalayas due to a unique seasonal cycle, reports a new study.
The high mountains of Asia, including the Karakoram, Himalayas, and Tibetan Plateau, combine to form a region of perplexing hydroclimate changes....
The UN conference “Water for Life” continued into its second and concluding day on June 10, 2015 with six High Level Round Tables and two plenary sessions reviewing: water and sanitation actions beyond 2015; links between world water, energy and food systems; global challenges such as...
The 7th World Water Forum, the largest water-related event in the world will take place this year in Daegu & Gyeongbuk, Korea from April 12th to 17th. This is a large-scale international conference that is held every three years since 1997 in cooperation with the public, private...
Duty station: CAO, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Deadline: 02 March 2015
The Project on Sustainability Transformation beyond 2015 (POST2015 project) has established a database on goals and indicators for sustainable development, to support the work of policy makers and scholars engaging...
Indigenous mountain communities from nine countries formed an International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples at a workshop in Bhutan. The workshop, which discussed how to respond to climate change impacts on their food and farming systems, resulted in the...
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