Category: Global

The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP 16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will resume in Rome, Italy, next week. Delegates will work to reach consensus on issues left unresolved during last year’s sessions in Cali, Colombia. With hopes high and critical issues on the table, decisions made in Rome could redefine global biodiversity conservation in the face of accelerating environmental threats. ICIMOD’s dedicated team will be there to keep mountains high on the agenda.

As lead authors of the IPBES Nexus Report - ‘Assessment Report on the Interlinkages Among Biodiversity, Water, Food and Health,’ ICIMOD’s Sunita Chaudhary, Biodiversity lead and Abid Hussain, Economies Lead, share eight critical points for addressing interconnected challenges on biodiversity, water, food, health, and climate in the Hindu Kush Himalaya.

In order to adapt to the impacts of climate change, most countries in the region have developed National Adaptation Plans and Strategies and are now gearing up to implement them. ‘UAE-Belem work programme’ convened by UNFCCC is working on refining and developing indicators for measuring progress towards the Global Goal on adaptation in eight domains – water, food, health, ecosystems, infrastructure and human settlements, poverty and livelihoods, cultural heritage, and policy cycle.

A conference and a special publication capture the complex environmental challenges faced by the ecosystems of the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Andes, and Antarctica; they also bring to the forefront an oft-neglected asset of the mountains: their microbial richness.

The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), spanning eight countries and covering 3,500 km, is a critical […]

250 delegates from the worlds of diplomacy, development, academia, policy, civil society and media attended […]

Mountains are the canary in the coalmine, says Bangladesh Minister for Environment, Forests, and Climate Change Saber Hossain Chowdhury. The help we need from G20 economies is for leaders to decarbonize. For that we need people to demand they change course.

ICIMOD Senior Biodiversity Specialist Nakul Chettri is among 2,000 delegates from governments, observers, and civil society, […]

Study shows all of Earth’s frozen parts will experience irreversible damage at 2°C of global warming, with disastrous consequences for millions of people, societies, and nature.