AFP: Mountain communities and the UN on Thursday joined hands to warn of the "devastating" impact of global warming in mountain areas, as climate change talks draw to a close in Cancun.
In an appeal to mark world mountain day on Saturday, the UN Environment Programme, experts and people from Switzerland, Bhutan and Canada warned that climate change was already changing their landscape, livelihoods and sapping water supplies.
"I'm convinced that unless we as individuals but also governments wake......
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Mountainfolk make climate plea as UN talks approach climax
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 9th, 2010
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