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The Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is launching an open call for nominations to its Scientific Steering Group (SSG) for the period 2024 – 2027. Nominate by 31 March 2023.

The WCRP Academy aims to equip current and future climate scientists with the knowledge, skills, and attributes required to tackle the world’s most pressing and challenging climate research questions. As part of this, they have launched a second global stocktake of training needs – and they need your input! Survey deadline 17 February 2023.

In the words of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference had the “urgent task of making peace with nature.”

Mountains are home to more than 85% of the world’s amphibian, bird and mammal species. Lowland slopes are rich in animal and plant species. And rugged, high-elevation environments, although lacking such biological diversity, play a key role in maintaining biodiversity in the wider mountain catchment area.

As their 50th year of publishing research on Nepal and the Himalayas draws to a close, HIMALAYA is proud to bring issue 41.2 to readers across the globe.

In this policy brief, the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme and the World Network of Mountain Biosphere Reserves present their recommendations for harnessing the socio-ecological potential of mountain biosphere reserves for biodiversity conservation.

Pre-register your interest in participating in GlaMBIE if you have regional glacier mass-balance estimates from the glaciological method, DEM differencing, altimetry, gravimetry, or from a combined approach for one or several of the 19 first order glacier regions*.

 Where does your water supply come from?

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