GEO Mountains recently revitalised its Task Groups under the 2023–2025 Implementation Plan, with Task Group 1 (TG1) focusing on maintaining and enhancing our In Situ and General Inventories. A feedback survey that took place from 16 October–20 December 2024 gathered user perspectives on both tools. The component of the survey focused on the General Inventory was completed by 17 people, while 19 people responded to […]

After working 30 hours overtime, IPCC Member Countries agreed on the outlines of the three Working Group reports and on a decision that enables the author nomination process for the Seventh Assessment Report to begin. There was still no agreement on the timeline for the reports’ delivery. Eighteen months into its current assessment cycle, the […]

The UIAA Mountain Protection Award (MPA) is the UIAA’s flagship project in sustainability. The year 2025 marks the 11th edition of the Award with application opening on 1 March. Any project rooted in mountain sports with a focus on environmental sustainability and climate change is eligible to apply for the UIAA Mountain Protection Award. The […]

The MRI encourages its network to nominate authors with mountain-relevant expertise for three key Working Group contributions to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report (AR7). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is calling for nominations of experts to act as Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, or Review Editors for the three key Working Group contributions to IPCC´s […]