Hindu Kush
A@A Knowledge Network: Meeting #3 Summary
The A@A Knowledge Network meeting provided 5 speed talks focussing on climate change in mountains related topics.
Protecting the ‘Water Tower’ of Asia: The Future of the Hindu Kush Himalaya
Watch this short video to learn about the challenges of climate change in the Himalayan mountains as well as examples of adaptation actions. The focus is on integrating all sectors into a comprehensive climate adaptation plan, and to optimize the water-energy nexus to “green the vertical deserts”.
Strengthening regional cooperation to address cascading climate risks in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
Learn about the barriers and enablers of enhanced regional cooperation on adaptation to manage the cascading impacts of climate change in this 8th APAN forum event. The event focused on mountainous regions, such as the Hindu Kush Himalaya, and how these regions can tackle cascading risks and scale up solutions.
Regional Climate Data Conference: Experts Unite to Ensure Data Accessibility through Collaborative Efforts
A summary of the Regional Climate Data Conference, in Bangladesh. The conference was to initiate a discussion on opportunities and barriers of accessing climate data and climate risk information, and ways of ensuring climate data availability and accessibility and to explore collaborations in the countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region.
Resilient Mountain Solutions in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
Learn about why a focus on resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region is important, and explore the different components of ICIMOD's Resilient Mountain Solutions programme.
Mountains Connect Interregional Workshop
The Mountains Connect Interregional Workshop brought together more than sixty participants from across the world's mountain regions to share and create new knowledge and experiences on adaptation and regional governance in mountain ranges.
Strengthening Climate Resilience in Mountainous Areas
Learn about strengthening the resilience of human and natural systems in mountainous areas against the impacts of climate change in this 2021 report from the OECD.
Mountain Adaptation Outlook Series: Synthesis Report
This 2018 synthesis report explores existing adaptation policies in main global mountain regions, and identifies gaps - as well as opportunities - to integrate mountain-specific adaptation measures into key sectoral, national and regional development strategies and policies.
Promoting ambitious climate action for the Hindu Kush Himalaya
(Videos) This focus day on HKH, which was live streamed from the Cryosphere Pavilion at COP26, explored the scaling up of investment in mountain-specific climate priorities and low carbon development, the dissemination of high-impact solutions that can deliver climate action in the HKH region, and shared policy and youth perspectives on climate action. Watch the recordings of each session.
Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE) Research on Glacier and Snowpack Dependent River Basins for Improving Livelihoods
This solution has been uploaded by Julia Aguilera on behalf of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the HI-AWARE consortium members.