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Advocating ecosystem-based adaptation approaches to address the complex impacts of climate change on communities and their environments

Our solutions are in nature

Sustainability at its core requires conscious use of the natural resources at hand, which is all the more critical in fragile mountain environments. Through the years, our work has piloted, supported, and promoted ecosystem-based adaptation approaches that use biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people adapt to the adverse effects of climate change since they are ideal for building socioecological resilience. Through our work in resilient mountain solutions and transboundary landscapes programmes, in springshed management, climatesmart agriculture, organic agriculture and in promoting renewable energy through our newly launched Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Centre for the Himalaya Initiative, we seek to harness nature-based solutions for sustainable mountain development. Supporting this goal, we collaborated with the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in Chengdu, China in December 2019 on a regional symposium which provided insights into the issues and challenges of integrating ecosystems-based adaptation (EbA) into policies and practice. At the symposium, over 50 scientists and practitioners from 35 institutions met to discuss technology transfer, effectiveness of EbA, and issues related to gender and social inclusion in EbA and sought to address problems related to limited knowledge on EbA progress and effectiveness which hinders the integration of the EbA approach into policy and practice.

Through our work in resilient mountain solutions and transboundary landscapes programmes, in springshed management, climate-smart agriculture, organic agriculture and in promoting renewable energy through our newly launched Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Centre for the Himalaya Initiative, we seek to harness nature-based solutions for sustainable mountain development.

Chapter 2

Knowledge generation and use

Multi-scale integrated river basin management resource book co-creation reinforces its relevance

Demand-driven, context-specific workshop allows for module testing

Promoting understanding of local air pollution implications

Since radio has both a large user base and low barrier to access, it is an ...

Mapping land cover

High-resolution annual land cover data for the HKH region

9 Jul 2021 HKH2Glasgow
A mountain voice in global forums

Highlighting regional conservation and development issues in global platforms and processes

Pivoting to clean cooking

Energy-efficient stoves replace open fire cooking in 115 households in Yunnan

Benchmark glaciers for monitoring in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Key steps towards more data generation, sharing and regional cooperation to understand and mitigate climate change impacts

Tourism planning at the local level

As Nepal’s gateway to Mount Kailash in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Namkha Rural Municipality ...

Resilient agriculture and entrepreneurship in Bhutan

We have been encouraging resilience in Bhutan by supporting the Royal Government of Bhutan’s flagship programmes ...