Following the overall initiative taken at the 4th Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership in Erzurum, Turkey, last year, UNEP—through its Vienna Office – together with its partners continued to promote the mainstreaming of mountain-related issues into the sustainable development debate.

Within this joint initiative, a new thematic issues brief related to mountains and water was issued by the Mountain Partnership in April 2014.

Mountains cover 25% of the world’s land surface, and directly support 12% of the world’s population living in mountain regions. Sustainable mountain development should be a global priority, given the multitude of ecosystem goods and services that mountains provide, not only to mountain peoples but also to people living downstream.

For further information:
http://www.grida.no/publications/mountain-policy-briefs/