Every three years, the organic sector assembles to host the Organic World Congress (OWC), the world’s largest organic gathering. Drawing from the motto, ‘From its Roots, Organic Inspires Life‘, OWC 2021 will aim to provide organic and likeminded stakeholders working toward sustainable agriculture, value chains and consumption with an opportunity to exchange their knowledge, innovations and experiences.
The 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 76) will open on 14 September 2021. The first day of the high-level General Debate will be 21 September 2021.
The UN Secretary-General will convene a Food Systems Summit with the aim of maximizing the co-benefits of a food systems approach across the entire 2030 Agenda and meeting the challenges of climate change. The Summit aims to provide a platform for ambitious new actions and innovative solutions, and plans to transform food systems and leverage these shifts to deliver progress across all of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Almost 400 young people aged between 15 and 29 from the 197 member-countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet in 2021 in Milan to elaborate concrete proposals on topics that affect the negotiation process of Pre-COP26 in Milan (30 September - 2 October 2021) and COP26 in Glasgow (1 - 12 November 2021).
The Pre-COP 26 Summit will take place ahead of the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The purpose of this meeting is to provide a selected group of countries with an informal setting to discuss and exchange views on some key political aspects of the negotiations to offer, to the extent possible, a political guidance for subsequent negotiations.
Expos are global events dedicated to finding solutions to fundamental challenges facing humanity by offering a journey inside a chosen theme through engaging and immersive activities. Expo 2021, held in Dubai, is themed “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future.” The Expo 2021 Dubai theme aims to build partnerships and inspire ideas that will forge the world of tomorrow.
The fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) will review the achievement and delivery of the CBD’s Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. It is also anticipated that the final decision on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework will be taken, together with decisions on related topics including capacity building and resource mobilization.
The Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), with the UK and its Italian partners, agreed on new dates for the COP26 UN climate conference, which will now take place between 1 and 12 November 2021 in Glasgow.
The Balipara Foundation's annual Eastern Himalayan Naturenomics Forum has been a platform to drive conservation actions with a commitment to strengthening the Eastern Himalayan region through its flagship frameworks Rural Futures and Naturenomic since 2014. With the Naturenomics vision of putting ecology back in economy, the Forum envisions towards growing economic prosperity in the region by preserving nature capital as means for instituting equitable access to communities to core resources such as education, healthcare and livelihoods.
The theme of the first Southern African Mountain Conference (SAMC2022) will be "Southern African mountains – their value and vulnerabilities". Organized by the African Mountain Research Foundation, in association with the Afromontane Research Unit (University of the Free State) and Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS – United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security and Eurac Research), SAMC2022 will be held at the Champagne Sports Resort in the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains.
The International Mountain Conference 2022 (IMC2022), to be hosted by the University of Innsbruck, will support mountain research and exchange among disciplines to gather and shape all available knowledge.
Check out Carbon Brief's summary of COP 25 outcomes. It concludes with noteworthy events leading up to COP 26 in Glasgow, UK scheduled from November 9-20, 2020.
The Mountain Partnership members’ are hosting three mountain-related side events at UNFCCC COP24 in Katowice, Poland and you’re invited!
Don’t Miss International Mountain Day on December 11th! #MountainsMatter is the theme chosen for this year’s celebration of International Mountain Day.
There is a lot that can be done as the world faces the realities of climate change. But, placing a human face on that reality is essential to understanding solutions and demanding action that is needed by so many.
As one of the world’s largest and fastest growing industries, tourism will continue to place stress on natural environments, habitats, communities, and cultures.
The Mountain Science and Ecological Observatory Network (MtnSEON) has formed a working group comprised primarily of scientists/academicians and federal resource managers to examine the feasibility of creating a Mountain Research Education Institute—MREI.
For anyone interested in mountain geographies, landscapes, and human ecology within, Mountain Geography: Physical and Human Dimensions by Price et al is a highly recommended resource.
The Fourth International Women of the Mountains (IWM) conference will take place on 7-9 October, 2015 at Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem, Utah, co-organized by UVU and the International University of Kyrgyzstan (IUK) under the auspice of the Mountain Partnership.
While eco-tourism is one topic that merits consideration in the quest for best sustainability practices, it is but a small part of what must be a broad mission in building sustainability awareness.
The main purpose of this case study is to highlight an example of mountain eco-tourism in North America and particularly the socio economic benefits.
The City of Aspen’s 100% renewable energy (RE) by 2015 goal is one component of a broader strategy to reduce both the City’s operational and community‐wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 30% below 2004 levels by 2020 and 80% below 2004 levels by 2050.
The Global Meeting was organized by the Aspen International Mountain Foundation (AIMF), which was selected to host the event in a competitive process in June, 2021. AIMF's co-hosts were the State of Colorado, the City of Aspen, and the Aspen Institute. The meeting was underwritten by AIMF and 25 sponsors led by the