Tag: SG3

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.

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.

ICIMOD’s Mandira Singh Shrestha describes attending the inaugural Third Pole Climate Forum with a network of meteorological, hydrological and climate experts, and an eye-opening field visit to the Yulong glacier in the Hengduan mountain range in Lijiang, China

In 2022 – 2023, Nepal achieved a remarkable 4.33 per cent increase in paddy production, churning out 5.72 million metric tons. The images captured by the satellites provided the crucial baseline information that was required to develop this production data. This technology is known as ‘remote sensing-supported crop area mapping ’, and was conducted by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in collaboration with Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Department (MoALD).

The SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) Initiative of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Department (MoALD) have been using remote sensing (RS) and machine learning (ML) techniques to adopt new technologies in food security assessment since 2019.

The Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS of Bangladesh’s Jahangirnagar University leads the way in geospatial research in the country, thanks to its ties with ICIMOD, USAID, and NASA.

As Bangladesh’s Department of Agricultural Extension and ICIMOD firm up a partnership on using remote sensing and Geospatial Information System technologies in the country’s agricultural sphere, crop mapping and flood and drought risk management will now be on a stronger footing.

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, […]

Nepal’s National Land Cover Monitoring System (NLCMS) represents a pivotal achievement and is poised to […]

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.

The Hindu Kush Himalaya Science-Policy Forum unites scientists, policymakers, development practitioners, and young researchers from across the High Mountain Asia region to discuss critical transboundary issues and collaborative solutions.