LATIN AMERICA, AFRICA, CENTRAL ASIA THREE REGIONAL MEETINGS: Strategic Initiative for Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development in Mountain Regions WITH SUPPORT FROM
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LATIN AMERICA,AFRICA,CENTRAL ASIA
THREEREGIONALMEETINGS:
Strategic Initiative for Climate ChangeImpacts, Adaptation and Developmentin Mountain Regions
WITH SUPPORT FROM
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At night, deep in the mountains,I sit in medita-tion. Unable to sleep I walk out into the woods.Suddenly, above the highest peak, the fullmoon appears.
RYOKA TAIGU
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THERE IS STILL VERY LIMITED AWARENESS,let alone concern, at the global-level of the impactscaused by climate change in mountain ecosystems. Theinformation available generally focuses on retreatingglaciers. While the perception may be one of regionswith lowpopulation density in a harsh environment, thereality ismagnitudes of people are affected directly andindirectly by changes in mountain environments.
Within the framework of the Strategic Initiative for Cli-mate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development inMountain Regions, the Mountain Partnership Secre-tariat has organized three regional meetings in Chile,Tajikistan and Uganda with support of the World BankDevelopment Grant Facility.
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The overall objective of theinitiative was to enhance theadvocacy of climate changeimpacts in mountain regionsand strengthen cross-regionaland cross-thematic coopera-tion in order to mobilize inter-national support andresources for promoting cli-mate change adaptation inmountain ecosystems.
Each regional meetingbrought together governmentdelegates, policy makers, sci-entists and climate changeexperts, to strengthen knowl-edge about the climatechange impacts in mountain
areas, to discuss adaptationoptions in mountain ecosys-tems and to promote better al-liances and cooperationamongst countries withmountain territories so to rein-force their understanding ofkey issues.
Each regional meeting wascomplemented with a eldvisit to a mountain area inwhich the impacts of climatechange were visible. The aimof these eld visits was the ex-posure of participants to local-level adaptation practices intheir respective mountainousdistricts.
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The firsT of The Three regional meeTingswas organized in collaboration with the ministryfor foreign aairs of Chile and the food and agri-culture organization of the United nations (fao).it was held in santiago, Chile from 26 to 28 octo-ber 2011
26-28 OCTOBER 2011, SANTIAGO DEL CHILE
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A regional strategy for the Met-ropolitan Region of Santiagowas approved in 2005, settingan action plan 2005-2012 withthe joint participation of stateand civil society organizations.This initiative provides impor-
tant management tools for anarea still lacking in basic re-search, and insuciently valued,but providing almost 75 percentof the water required by Chilescapital city.
INCHILE, PARTICIPANTSVISITEDCAJNDELMAIPO,a canyon located in theAndean south-easternportionof theSantiagoMetropolitanRegion. It encompassesthe upper Maipo River basin, where the river hasentrenched itself in a narrow valley
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T H E S E C O N D R E G I O N A L M E E T I N Gwas coordinated in collaborationwith theUni-versity of Central Asia (UCA). Themeeting washeld in Dushanbe, Tajikistan from 9 to 11 No-vember 2011
9-11 NOVEMBER 2011, DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN
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Almost90percentofthepopulation of CentralAsia relies onwater thatfalls in the mountainswhere it is stored ingla-ciers and snow beforemaking its way down-stream to populationcentres.Overall, Tajikistan holds40 percent of thewaterresourcesservingthe&veCentralAsiacountries.These water resources
also serve China andRussia.However, globalwarm-ing is slowlydecimatingmountain glaciers, af-fecting snow reservesand at the same timeincreasing water re-quirements of basicagriculturalcrops.
INTAJIKISTAN, PARTICIPANTSVIS-ITED THE NUROBOD DISTRICT OFTHE RASHT VALLEY, 160 km fromthecapitalcityofDushanbe
Twovillageswithpilotactivitiespro-vided participants with evidence ofthe complexityof climate change inhighaltitudecontexts
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17-19 NOVEMBER 2011, MBALE, UGANDA
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T H E T H I R D R E G I O N A L M E E T I N Gtook place in Mbale, Uganda from 17 to 19November 2011 in joint cooperation withthe United Nations Environment Pro-gramme (UNEP)
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The African mountainsstand out as areas withfavourable climatic andecological conditions,in contrast to the sur-rounding lowlands thataregenerallymuchdrier.Asaconsequenceofthis,thetotal average pop-ulation density in allAfrican mountains ismore than double thedensityof the lowlands.
The driving economicforces nowhave betterknowledge about andaccess to the rich nat-ural resources in themountains, includinghy-dropower,minerals,timberandagriculturalsoils.
In Uganda, partIcIpants vIsItedMoUnt elgon and communitieson its slopes to observe emergingmicro-climate changes, theircauses and eects so to discusscoping mechanisms and suitableadaptation strategies
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www.fao.org/
www.ucentralasia.org/
www.unep.org/
www.worldbank.org/
www.mountainpartnership.org/
Would you like to learnmore? Try these links:
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Mountain Partnership SecretariatFAO, Forestry Department
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla00153 Rome, Italy
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