The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, is a regional knowledge development and learning centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan – and...
 
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ICIMOD’s Position on Climate
Change and Mountain Systems

According to the IPCC, the HKH region is a ‘white spot’ in that it lacks consistent long-term data; this calls for global, regional, and national attention to fill the gap.ICIMOD is committed to this task...

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Livelihoods in the mountains are considerably more susceptible to environmental and economic change than those in the plains. They react more immediately to, and tend to be much more strongly linked with...

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The ICIMOD Demonstration and Training Centre at Godavari, on the southern slopes of the Kathmandu Valley, was set up in March 1993, following the generous provision of 35 hectares of land by His Majesty's Government of Nepal in November 1992...

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