Remote mountainous regions of Nepal face economic, social and environmental challenges including lack of market access, outmigration, dependency on imports and subsidies, women’s drudgery, malnutrition, unpredictable weather, pests and diseases. To tackle some of these challenges, UNEP and partners are working with the local community to conserve biodiversity of crops, to boost food security and resilience.

We need political will and commitment during COVID-19 times. Our world is packed with knowledge and we can achieve SDG goals if we remain engaged.

In environmental research, sufficiency is seen as a major pillar of sustainability, but has been widely absent in the political and public conversations on environmental strategies. With digitisation informing novel technologies and means to manage resources, there are promising avenues for sufficiency measures being discussed and introduced.

Prof Messerli’s (chairman of UN SDG report Sep 2019) presentation at the SUDAC conference and his speech at the UN.

Meet the engineers who build glaciers from scratch to help isolated villages in Ladakh, the northernmost province of India. Sonam Wangchuk’s team hopes that when the man-made sculptures melt, they will provide water in times of need.

The climate justice movement in South Asia, and India in particular, took a significant step forward with the launch of the South Asian People’s Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC).

After spending over three years with small farmers in coffee plantations, ETH Zurich’s Maike Nesper presents a strong case for promoting traditional coffee growing practices.

Read more about Biochar by UZH researcher Samuel Abiven and his team, and how it solves issues pertaining to residual crop waste, crop quality and soil fertility.