On the occasion of World Environment Day 2011, we prepared a very brief  note on the work of Climate Himalaya Initiative in advocating Mountain Agenda from Himalayan region .

Our Take: Who will Fund our will!

We don’t always require a project fund to set examples, spread ideas and make things happen! On this premise we launched Climate Himalaya Initiative on 5 June 2010. Not all ideas and discussions we had during last one year with our likely partners, were implemented by us, but we could see they were! Climate Himalaya team is aware that our voice made a difference, in advocating various important policy aspects in knowledge management and institutional networking, in Himalayan region.

It was the will, and it will…!

Our Campaign: Cancún-Mountain Trails…

As science says that mountains are the early indicators of gl

obal climate change, we tracked those trails from CoP16! A campaign was launched throughout the event period to raise awareness on Mountain agenda from Cancun. How much happened, you can Read>>

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Our Campaign: International Mountain Day…

Celebrated the day with TERI! Recognition of mountains as hotspot for climate change, and proactive action by India on its national sub mission Sustaining Himalayan Ecosystem, were two major issues. We also covered events from Nepal, US, Uganda, Croatia, Pakistan, Iran, Italy and Peru. The discussions were around empowerment of indigenous communities in the mountains and promoting and

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preserving their traditional knowledge! Read>>

Quotes:

‘Himalayan Mountains are not only water towers, but, they are much more than that…’Dr. Pachauri

‘As mountains cover 24 per cent of the land surface, a mountain specific planning is needed to ensure the flow of ecosystem services..’ Prof Martin Price, UK

Our Activities

Networking for Himalaya…

We had outreach activities in Australia, Bangkok, Bhutan, India, Nepal and UK, while raised mountain voice in various national, regional and global networks. A few include; Adaptation network Asia, Mountain forum global, Mountain partnership, UN solution exchange, European journalism centre, IUCN biodiversity media alliance,  Earth journalism centre,  Eldis community, etc.

Knowledge, Innovation and Adaptation Platform…

A knowledge sharing platform has been developed, where on daily basis updates and information on various climate change issues from Himalaya is updated. It contains 70 categories, over 2000 articles, featured news, events & opportunity section and downloadable publications. In last one year we had over 62 thousand visitor to this, and the numbers are growing!  Read >>

Building upon future…

The initiative is now partner to UNEP supported Asia Pacific Adaptation Network and media partner to Climate 2011 conference. We are running opinion poll and a debate on sustainable mountain development and will be launching a Himalaya focused policy advocacy campaign in context to CoP17, RIO +20 and IYB 2011-2020.

We Need Support

To run our upcoming policy advocacy campaign and expand existing knowledge platform. We are also inviting guest contributors/columnists to write articles on mountain issues in Himalaya at our knowledge portal.

Please write to us at: info@climatehimalaya.net

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