The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development - ICIMOD’s Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) have started and is enthousiastically implementing Youth for Sustainable Mountain Development (Y4SMD) initiative.
The objective is to improve youth engagement in advocating Mountain Agenda with a strong vocal in the context of Rio+20 and UNFCCC and CBD processes, with financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC).
The implemented activities have Asia Pacific geographic scope as APMN also acts as Asia Pacific coordinating unit (platform- Node/Hub) of the Mountain Forum (MF) and the Mountain Partnership (MP) – two global initiatives advocating for sustainable mountain development (SMD).
Started in May 2011 in partnership with global and regional youth initiatives, Y4SMD has made significant progress in achieving this objective, as they have established Asia Pacific Youth on Rio +20 (Earth Summit 2012) as the largest Asia Pacific Youth Group on Rio+20:
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development - ICIMOD’s Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) have started and is enthousiastically implementing Youth for Sustainable Mountain Development (Y4SMD) initiative.
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The objective is to improve youth engagement in advocating Mountain Agenda with a strong vocal in the context of Rio+20 and UNFCCC and CBD processes, with financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC).
The implemented activities have Asia Pacific geographic scope as APMN also acts as Asia Pacific coordinating unit (platform- Node/Hub) of the Mountain Forum (MF) and the Mountain Partnership (MP) – two global initiatives advocating for sustainable mountain development (SMD).
Started in May 2011 in partnership with global and regional youth initiatives, Y4SMD has made significant progress in achieving this objective, as they have established Asia Pacific Youth on Rio +20 (Earth Summit 2012) as the largest Asia Pacific Youth Group on Rio+20:
- Nearly 1500 members joining the facebook fan page
- 560 members in the virtual discussion group
- 192 Followers on twitter
- 43 Youth from 17 Asia Pacific countries and 48 media persons from 9 countries – trained on ‘Mountains and Climate Change Adaptation in preparations for Rio+20’.
- Blog Youth perspectives on Rio+20
- Organisation of the South and Central Asia regional virtual consultation on youth perspectives on Rio +20 and views captured (synthesis).
- The only Asia Pacific Youth paper towards Rio +20.
- First Asia Pacific Youth Declaration on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, shared at UNFCCC COP17
- Three special issues of the Asia Pacific Mountain Courier dedicated to Youth – two on ‘Youth and Climate Change Adaptation’ and one on ‘Youth on Rio+20’.
- Three scientific articles:
- Mahat, T. J. (2011), International Year of Youth 2010/11 – Mainstreaming youth in environmental processes - My views in the ICIMOD eNews June/July 2011. ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal. http://www.icimod.org/?q=3843
- Mahat, T.J (2011), Global Youth Movement for Rio +20 and the Mountain Agenda - My views in the ICIMOD eNews Oct/Nov 2011. ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal. http://www.icimod.org/?q=4461
- Mahat, T. J. (2011), Road to Rio+20: Mobilising Asia Pacific youth for promoting sustainable mountain development, in the Earth Observation and Climate Change – ICIMOD Newsletter Sustainable Mountain Development, No. 60 autumn 2011. ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal. http://www.icimod.org/publications/index.php/search/publication/769
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