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Note: Please feel free to forward the following notice from Dr. Thomas
Kohler to your friends and colleagues working on climate change or Climate
change management in mountains. - Ujol Sherchan, Mountain Forum Secretariat

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Dear Colleague,

CDE of the University of Bern and Mountain Forum are looking for support
from people working on climate change or climate change management, with
regard to the preparation of FAO's information note for the International
Mountain Day 2007. The theme is MOUNTAINS and CLIMATE CHANGE. By taking
Mountain Forum's recent publication "Melting Mountains"
http://www.mtnforum.org/rs/bulletins/mf-bulletin-2007-07.pdf) to which you
had contributed an article/write-up as a point of departure, we are
specifically looking for practical examples of promising, or already proven,
cases of climate change management in mountains! These examples could deal
with any form of change management - from policy to implementation, from
awareness raising to education and training, from preventive to corrective
measures, etc. We are aware that we are still in the early hours relating to
climate change management, but this makes this search for examples on
practical solutions all the more interesting.

On the one hand, we are looking for examples which aim at reducing, or
mitigating, anticipated or experienced negative impacts - this is apparent -
but on the other hand we are also interested in cases which seize
opportunities of anticipated, or experienced, positive impacts of climate
change. It is not all doom and gloom when we speak about climate change in
mountains!

Thus, we invite you all, and members of like-minded organisations, to report
on such cases, examples, or initiatives, from any mountain region of the
world. The length of the contribution should not exceed 200-300 words, and
should ideally be accompanied by a colour picture.

We would be happy to receive contributions not later than September 10,
2007. Please send your contributions or queries to: c...@mtnforum.org .

Contributions or excerpts of contributions which will be used for the
information note will of course be credited, featuring the names of authors
and their home institutions.

We thank you for your collaboration - your contributions will help enrich
FAO's information note and make it truly global!

Thomas Kohler

Associate Director

Centre for Development and Environment

Institute of Geography

Steigerhubelstrasse 3

CH-3008 Bern

SWITZERLAND

Tel.:+41 (0)31 631 88 22 (direct: +41 (0)31 631 88 60)

Fax.: +41 (0)31 631 85 44

E-Mail: c...@mtnforum.org (valid till 10 September 2007)