ICIMOD Job Alert Join our dynamic team working for a more resilient and sustainable Hindu Kush Himalaya. Senior Project Coordinator Himalayan Resilience Enabling Action Programme (HI-REAP) (Re-advertisement) Application deadline: 6 July 2025 Motorpool Associate (Nepali

Brace for high-hazard summer, warn experts, as a hotter, wetter monsoon is forecast for mountain Asia 🔹Temperatures likely to be above normal in all eight countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayas, running from 0.5 to 2ºC above long-term averages 🔹New synthesis of global and

Call for Expressions of Interest We seek a consulting firm or experienced individual consultants to undertake a Mid-Term Evaluation of the project ‘Building capabilities for green, climate resilient, and inclusive development in Nepal's Lower Koshi River Basin’ (HI-GRID).

ICIMOD attended the launch of the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France, which closed today. With unprecedented focus on the deglaciation of Earth’s mountains, and the terrifying implications those losses of snow and

Kunzang, our Global Advocacy Lead, outlines ICIMOD’s participation in the United Nations’ crucial Bonn climate change meetings, which start this Monday. The annual Bonn sessions are key moments in the global climate change negotiation calendar – where the real groundwork is

ICIMOD partners with global big data for sustainable development centre. The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) on 11th June, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development

2025 has already been a landmark year for mountain advocacy – with ICIMOD central to major efforts to foreground mountain issues with the global climate discourse. Our knowledge, people, and diplomatic efforts have been key to: 🔹the launch the International Year for

The message from the mountains is clear: vulnerable communities can’t afford to wait. 🏔️ At the #SagarmathaSambaad, #Nepal spotlighted Loss & Damage in a session co-hosted by UN Development & ICIMOD, calling for urgent finance, justice, & global action. 🔗 More: go.undp.org/GLOF

Climate change and #migration are reshaping lives across the #HinduKushHimalaya (HKH) region. Climate impacts and risks are transforming livelihoods and driving migration, while migration itself is influencing the resilience and adaptive capacity of communities. Despite growing

The rate of built-up area expansion in our region is almost double the population growth rate, and built-up areas have increased by almost 75% from 2000 to 2020. Cement, iron, steel and aluminium dominate modern construction here. These materials have a higher carbon footprint

Waste and pollution are rising fast in mountain communities and hill towns – driven by rapid urbanisation, poor planning, and rural-to-urban migration. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to address the pressures on biodiversity, water, energy, and sanitary systems waste and

ICIMOD's 2025 Monsoon Outlook predicts above normal temperatures and precipitations between June and September 2025, for much of South Asia, including the HKH. Temperatures are likely to be 0.5ºC to 2ºC above long-term averages, while precipitation patterns will vary across

ICIMOD Job Alert Join our dynamic team working for a more resilient and sustainable Hindu Kush Himalaya. Intervention Manager: Leveraging Investment Application deadline: 15 July 2025 Administrative Associate – Living Mountain Lab Application deadline: 2 July 2025

ICIMOD responds to WMO’s 2024 State of Climate Asia report with a press release. Key takeaways for our region: Asia is warming at twice the global average, states the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) in report issued today Continent ‘hit hard by rising temperatures

Nepal has a goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2045. But one key opportunity for decarbonisation in the country has thus far gone relatively unexplored: deploying solar thermal energy to generate electricity for industrial and domestic heating. Nepal’s Third Nationally

World expert in mountain water in The Hindustan Times on ‘The Great Thaw’ and Asia’s unique leadership role. “Asia is disproportionately exposed to the losses of the Earth’s snow and ice,” writes John Pomeroy co-chair of the UN Advisory Board for the International Year for

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, also known as UN Climate Change) today (24 June) signed a three-year memorandum of understanding to strengthen climate action in the

Call for Expressions of Interest The overall objective of the Quadrennial Review (QDR) is to conduct a forward-looking, utilisation focused, learning oriented and methodologically rigorous strategic and institutional assessment of ICIMOD to determine the extent to which it is