ICIMOD initiated the climate-proofing mountain tourism landscape concept through a two-pronged approach – field school and policy development. These approaches are connecting communities to policy, where lessons and experiences from the field inform policy development.
Article 13 of the Paris Agreement established the ETF and builds on earlier efforts to make things more transparent and clearer, like the measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) arrangements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where countries systematically track, report, and having their climate actions assessed to ensure progress towards their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
This blog provides an overview of the work delivered and participated in by Hindu Kush Himalaya countries and ICIMOD in pushing the mountain agenda in the upcoming assessment report of the IPCC.