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Briefing Note
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced a briefing note of the meeting. To download our report, click the HTML or PDF icons below. |
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 Meeting of the Mountain Focus Group
14 December 2011 | UN headquarters, New York, United States of America |
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The meeting of the Mountain Focus Group convened in New York, US, at the Permanent Mission of Italy to the UN, on 14 December 2011. It was organized by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Missions of Italy and Switzerland to the UN, and sought to forge a common understanding on including mountain development in the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) preparatory process and the Conference itself. The meeting followed up on a similar event in May 2011, and will be followed by a key meeting in the UNCSD preparatory process: the Second Intersessional Meeting (15-16 December 2011).
The meeting focused on the outcomes from the Lucerne World Mountain Conference and its potential input to the UNCSD, the latest developments in the UNCSD preparatory process and ensuring the proper inclusion of mountain issues, and the role of the MPS leading up to the UNCSD in June 2012. Topics addressed included the need to communicate both the challenges and benefits of mountains, approaches for outreach on mountain issues, potential partnerships, and the sustainable development of mountains as a cross-cutting issue.
Download the IISD RS briefing note of the meeting in HTML or PDF format.
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| The Mountain Focus Group gathered at the Italian Mission to the UN on 14 December 2011 (photo courtesy of Tullia Baldassarri Höger von Högersthal, Mountain Partnership Secretariat.) |
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Meeting resources
 Meeting agenda
Mountain Partnership
Mountain Partnership Flyer on Three Regional Meetings: Strategic Initiative for Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Development in Mountain Regions
Website of Event on Mountain Countries and the Road to Rio+20, 9 May 2011
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