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The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
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The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, is a regional knowledge development and learning centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan – and based in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Climate change has an increasing influence on the stability of fragile mountain ecosystems and the livelihoods of mountain people. ICIMOD aims to assist mountain people to understand these changes, adapt to them, and make the most of new opportunities, while addressing upstream-downstream issues. ICIMOD believes that the region’s people must be enabled and empowered to cope with, adapt to, and benefit from the changes they are experiencing so that they can enjoy enhanced livelihoods along with increased social and environmental security.
The potential impacts of climate change in the mountains listed above have a multitude of socioeconomic implications. These include direct effects of the changes on water resources and hydropower generation, on slope stability, and on hazards relating to avalanches and glacier lakes, which in turn impact the well being and livelihoods of mountain people.
ICIMOD’s new strategy focuses on ‘Responding to the challenges of global change: enhancing resilience and supporting adaptation of mountain communities’. Thus almost all ICIMOD activities are involved in some way with climate change in mountain areas, whether measuring change per se, or helping communities to recognise, respond, and adapt to such changes.
Contact Details
P.O. Box 3226, Khumaltar,
Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: +977 1 5003222
Fax: +977 1 5003299, 5003277
Email: info@icimod.org
For more information: ICIMOD
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