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2009-11-05

Climate check-up for the Alps

Konservierte Alpen-Idylle
What sort of impact and side effects do climate response measures have? CIPRA's latest issue of AlpsInsight entitled In the Name of Climate Protection looks at how climate change issues are being addressed in the Alps and points the way towards sustainable action.

2009-09-24

New ideas for life in the Alps in the post-fossil age

Franz Josef Radermacher
Last week's annual CIPRA conference on the subject of growth attracted some 200 attendees to Liechtenstein. There was a consensus that our limited resources mean that growth is finite. Numerous ideas were offered and calls made for a response to the inevitable downsizing process. CIPRA summarised the most urgent calls in a catalogue of ideas.

2009-06-25

Further support for the Alpine ecological network

In den Zeiten des Klimawandels ist es besonders wichtig, die Landschaft für wandernde Arten durchgängig zu machen.
CIPRA, the Alpine network of protected areas, ISCAR and the WWF have been involved in the "Ecological Continuum" project for the establishment of an ecological network covering the entire Alpine region since 2007.

2009-05-20

Feasibility of Alpine Crossing Exchange to be examined at the European level

Es bleibt abzuwarten, ob sich die Alpentransitbörse auf europäischer Ebene etablieren wird.
The transport ministers of Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Germany, France and Slovenia have commissioned an in-depth analysis relating to the introduction of the Alpine Crossing Exchange. At a meeting of the ministers in Vienna/A a body was entrusted with clarifying the preconditions for the implementation of the three traffic management systems, specifically the Alpine Crossing Exchange, the emissions trading scheme and "Toll plus".

2008-11-06

€100,000 for exemplary climate protection in the Alps

Fahrrad
At a ceremony held in Bern/CH on 6 November, the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA) awarded prizes for outstanding climate protection to seven municipalities, businesses and organisations, the winners of its cc.alps competition held across the Alps. Weather expert Thomas Bucheli and CIPRA President Dominik Siegrist presented the prizes worth a total of €100,000.

2008-11-06

ECONNECT: Nature without limits

Barriere
The kick-off for the EU project "ECONNECT - Restoring the web of life" took place in Vienna/A on 4 and 5 November. Over the next three years sixteen partners and four observers from all the Alpine States will be working to implement an ecological network across state borders and the confines of protected areas.

2008-07-31

Biodiversity and climate change as subjects for transnational co-operation

Autobahnbrücke
The Alpine Space Programme established in the framework of the INTERREG IVB European Community Initiative Programme is being used to fund a dozen new projects.

2008-06-19

Climate Pact for the Alps - criteria for innovation

Argentiere
Some 350 attendees came to Argentière-la-Bessée/F for this year's AlpWeek from 11 - 14 June to discuss the question of innovation in and for the Alps under the title of "Innovating (in) the Alps".

2008-06-19

Alps and Carpathians pulling together for biological diversity

Bonn
On 29 May, the representatives of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, the Alpine Convention and the Carpathian Convention agreed to intensify collaboration in the field of nature protection and signed a memorandum of co-operation to that effect.

2008-05-15

Educational CD on sustainable development in the Alps

Cover CD
A new educational CD-Rom has been published, providing a wide overview of key issues affecting the Alps.

2008-02-14

NENA: A new network of innovative enterprises in the Alps

NENA Gründung
A network of innovative and sustainability-orientated enterprises and umbrella organisations in the Alps was officially established in Zurich in mid-January.

2007-11-22

Alpweek 2008 - Innovating [in] the Alps

Glacier blanc
The second edition of the Alpweek is being held in the Pays des Ecrins/F from 11 to 14 June 2008, with players from throughout the Alpine region discussing issues of sustainable development. After the positive experiences of the 2004 Alpweek in Kranjska Gora/SI the major Alpine networks ISCAR, CIPRA, Alliance in the Alps, ALPARC and Club Arc Alpin decided to repeat the event in 2008.

2007-09-28

Negative CO2 balance in the Alpine region

Mehrfamilienhaus
The Alps have the potential to become a model region for climate protection. And yet today, on a global comparison, every inhabitant of the Alps is contributing disproportionately to the greenhouse gas emissions affecting the climate.

2007-08-30

BergBuchBrig

Brig
Montagnalibri, the international mountain-book fair, is to be held for the second time in Brig in the Valais/CH from 25 to 28 October 2007. BergBuchBrig presents over 1,000 new books from 30 countries in a variety of languages. All the specialist books, literary works, picture books, guides, etc., relate to the world of the mountains.

2007-08-01

CIPRA's 3rd Alpine Report presents the shapers of the future

In its 3rd Alpine Report, to be published in autumn 2007, CIPRA is making the results of Future in the Alps available to a broad public.

2007-06-22

International Conference: The Alps beyond Kyoto

Schiestlhaus
CIPRA, the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps, is organising an international conference on energy efficiency and renewable energies in the Alpine region from 20 to 22 September.

2007-03-29

CIPRA submits Memorandum on Future in the Alps

Exkursion
In a Memorandum, CIPRA, the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps, formulates political demands for the future development of the Alpine region as a whole. The demands are the result of the Future in the Alps Project.

2007-03-15

New publication on Alpine Towns

AlpenStadt-AlpenLand
In 2005 CIPRA, the International Commission on the Protection of the Alps, organised a large conference on Alpine Towns and has now published the collected findings in a conference book.

2006-09-21

The Alps should become a model climate region

CIPRA, the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps, is calling for an Alpine Convention (AC) action plan on climate protection. CIPRA has sent a letter to this effect to the Environment Ministers of the Alpine countries and the EU, who are meeting in Alpbach/A on 8 and 9 November for the 9th Alpine Conference.

2006-09-06

Conference publication with findings of the AlpWeek 2004

"The Alps of the Next Generation" was the theme of the AlpWeek 2004 held in Kranjska Gora/SI, a conference which looked at ways of finding solution approaches to current problems and staged a number of scientific discussions.


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