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Our solutions are in nature

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Advocating ecosystem-based adaptation approaches to address the complex impacts of climate change on communities and their environments

Our solutions are in nature

Sustainability at its core requires conscious use of the natural resources at hand, which is all the more critical in fragile mountain environments. Through the years, our work has piloted, supported, and promoted ecosystem-based adaptation approaches that use biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people adapt to the adverse effects of climate change since they are ideal for building socioecological resilience. Through our work in resilient mountain solutions and transboundary landscapes programmes, in springshed management, climatesmart agriculture, organic agriculture and in promoting renewable energy through our newly launched Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Centre for the Himalaya Initiative, we seek to harness nature-based solutions for sustainable mountain development. Supporting this goal, we collaborated with the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in Chengdu, China in December 2019 on a regional symposium which provided insights into the issues and challenges of integrating ecosystems-based adaptation (EbA) into policies and practice. At the symposium, over 50 scientists and practitioners from 35 institutions met to discuss technology transfer, effectiveness of EbA, and issues related to gender and social inclusion in EbA and sought to address problems related to limited knowledge on EbA progress and effectiveness which hinders the integration of the EbA approach into policy and practice.

Through our work in resilient mountain solutions and transboundary landscapes programmes, in springshed management, climate-smart agriculture, organic agriculture and in promoting renewable energy through our newly launched Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Centre for the Himalaya Initiative, we seek to harness nature-based solutions for sustainable mountain development.

Chapter 2

Knowledge generation and use

Science-based regional collaboration through the Upper Indus network 

Members are presently working on basin level issues focusing on climate change and resilience

Climate data for all

As a one-stop data portal for the HKH region, our Regional Database System ...

3 Dec 2019 RMS
Straw Mulches aid farmers battling drought

As she planted her batch of bitter gourds in Kalchhe Besi last year, Kamala Timalsina was unsure if they would ...

Benchmark glaciers for monitoring in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Key steps towards more data generation, sharing and regional cooperation to understand and mitigate climate change impacts

Springs of hope

Community engagement, proven results in the field, and policy dialogues with government bodies in Bhutan, India, ...

3 Dec 2019 HICAP
Filling knowledge gaps in the HKH

Initial HICAP study results "The climate has already changed a lot. Last year we suffered from floods, now we are suffering ...

9 Jul 2021 HKH2Glasgow
A mountain voice in global forums

Highlighting regional conservation and development issues in global platforms and processes

Flagship publications of 2021

In 2021, we published three books based on the work across three different initiatives.