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Read the latest news from the Joint Body on the Status of Mountain Snow Cover! 

Digital Earth Africa and the GEO Knowledge Hub teams are pleased to invite you to the upcoming webinar showcasing the applications on Agriculture and Food Security available in the GEO Knowledge Hub. The Geo Knowledge Hub is an open-source digital repository of open, authoritative and reproducible knowledge created by the Group on Earth Observations.

Contribute to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Rolling Review of Requirements (RRR) for Terrestrial Snow Observation

The Group on Earth Observations in partnership with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is calling on young innovators, researchers and entrepreneurs to showcase their work to advance early warning systems (EWS).

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 the component focused on the In Situ Inventory.

by James Thornton.

February 2024: Alex Massot – a colleague from the GEO Mountains Secretariat – and I have been kindly invited to extend our stay in Colombia by a group of mountain researchers, led by Professors Maria Elena Gutiérrez and Enrique Ángel from Universidad EIA

The team are keen to show us the spectacular mountain environment in which they work, and give us a first-hand impression of some of the challenges it faces and which, with support from GEO Mountains, they are working intensively to better understand.

The International Mountain Conference 2025 will take place 14-18 September in Innsbruck, Austria. Join representatives of GEO Mountains for a focus session and workshop.

A compilation of information regarding four projects supported by the GEO Mountains Small Grants Programme 2023 was selected for inclusion in a high-profile Mountain Partnership publication entitled ‘Promoting innovation and tradition: Solutions for climate change adaptation in mountains’.

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