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'We cannot wait for a miracle from a mountaintop,' UN Secretary General António Guterres concluded in his COP 27 address. On International Mountain Day, we look at the events held and decisions reached concerning mountain environments at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt last month.

In 2021, we attended and reported on the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.  Although we didn't travel to the COP27 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh last month, we followed developments from afar. Amid major new decisions affecting mitigation and loss and damage finance, there was also an historic recognition of the importance of conserving the cryosphere - regions covered in ice and snow - and by extension an acknowledgement of the vulnerabilities of mountain areas as global governments looks to limit warming to 1.5°C.

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An excellent and important article IMO. Thanks 

Thanks . I think it is important to remind people that it is happening...  Its easy to feel powerless and just continue with life - adding your silence as consent to the continual extraction and use of fossil fuels, and mis managment of nature and other resources from the world without due care for the consequences. 

Nature is important to us all and its survival is equal to our survival.