As part of the UN-declared International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP 2025), the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), together with the Forum Landscape, Alps, Parks of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (FoLAP/SCNAT) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research (CIRM, University of Lausanne), convened a multidisciplinary session on Glaciers and Deglaciation: Perspectives on their Relevance for […]

Glaciers across Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and Pakistan are shrinking at a pace that is already having significant impacts on vulnerable communities. A new Asian Development Bank project aims to support adaptation efforts in the face of escalating risks. The world’s largest climate fund has approved $250 million to support Glaciers to Farms, an […]

On 26 November 2025, the GEO Mountains community came together online for its second General Meeting of the year. The meeting brought updates on recent network achievements, highlighted scientific contributions from members, and looked ahead to key activities in 2026.  The GEO Mountains Secretariat opened the meeting with several important updates. Participants heard about the […]

At the end of a year marked by environmental catastrophes, reeling from a sharp downturn in development finance, and still in the throes of geopolitical shifts, the world gathered at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi to take decisive action to better safeguard the planet and its people. During the seventh session of the UN Environment […]