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News

Energy-efficient Alpine communities and Alpine towns

(16.3.2010) At the end of February the Vorarlberg communities of Langenegg, Mäder and Zwischenwasser received the European Energy Award® (eea) - Gold. These communities spearhead the international award for energy-efficient communities, which evaluates some 600 towns and communities across Europe. More

Harnessing expertise for ecological networks in the Alps

(3.2.2010) The Ecological Continuum Initiative has brought international experts together as part of a think tank whose long-term objective is to setup up an alpine-wide ecological network. The think tank provides the experts from the fields of science and practice with a framework for developing new projects to complement and follow up on existing activities such as the ECONNECT project. More

Events

Large Carnivore Seminar

(22.3.2010) Beskidy Mountains/PL
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Legal instruments for ecological connectivity in the Alps

International technical seminar in the frame of the ECONNECT project

(6.5.2010) Grenoble/F
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Publication

Mountains and Climate Change

Year of Publication: 2009

From Understanding to Action

Mountains are among the regions most affected by climate change. The implications of climate change will reach far beyond mountain areas, as the contributions in the present publication prepared for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 show. Themes discussed are water, glaciers and permafrost, hazards, biodiversity, food security, and migration. The case studies included show that concrete adaptive action has been taken in many mountain areas of the world. The publication concludes with a series of recommendations for sustainable mountain development in the face of climate change. More