A number of international organizations launched mountain related initiatives or integrated issues relating to mountains and mountain people into their programmes of work.

7. Also encourages Governments to integrate mountain sustainable development in national, regional and global policymaking and development strategies, including through incorporating mountain specific requirements in sustainable development policies or through specific mountain policies

Afghanistan, a place defined by high mountains, green meadows, clear waters and bloody conflict.

It allows Ukraine to address mountain issues from a multi disciplinary perspective and in particular its participation in the Carpathian Convention.

The current programme of the United Nations University now includes several educational activities specifically addressing mountain issues.

The western border of the boreal in British Columbia is marked by the Coast Mountains, and on the other side of those mountains is the greatest remaining temperate rainforest in the world, the Great Bear Rainforest, and we'll discuss that in a few minutes in a bit more detail.

The biennial resolution reflected a strong North South partnership and dealt with the opportunities and challenges related to mountains and mountain populations.

Of course, that boat's been underwater for over a year, and the tide's been knocking her against the ridge, but it seemed to me the 'oles looked as if she'd made 'em from the inside.

Those rivers are draining snowmelt from mountains far to the east, where snow melts, it travels down the river through the desert, and forms the great Aral Sea.

And I think of this as kind of a moral landscape, with peaks and valleys that correspond to differences in the well being of conscious creatures, both personal and collective.

It is surrounded by mostly low mountains such as the Sudetes with its part Krkonoše, containing the highest point in the country, the Sněžka at .

Most of the forest is in the north, and much of the mountain is rocky, deforested, grassy and made out of limestone.

The Congress included a workshop on conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas and adopted several resolutions and recommendations directly relating to mountains.

Thank you, for this outrateous experience, this gift, this playground filled with mountains and sunshine, friends, and family, love, joy, health, vision, passion.

The event also ensured that mountain issues were included in recommendations for the draft international implementation scheme prepared by UNESCO for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

And I think of this as kind of a moral landscape, with peaks and valleys that correspond to differences in the well being of conscious creatures, both personal and collective.

The programme of work was aimed at establishing regional and transboundary collaboration and called for, inter alia, strengthened collaboration with the Mountain Partnership and regional conventions on mountains.

Mountain issues have now been raised higher on the national agenda in Argentina, as seen in the establishment of the Committee for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions of Argentina in 2005.

(b) Also encourages the continued establishment and development of mountain related national committees, focal points and other multi stakeholder mechanisms at the national level for sustainable development in mountain regions

Its creation was motivated by the extensive work undertaken on mountain issues in the country during the International Year of Mountains and an intensive three year collaborative process with key Government agencies and institutions.

Transboundary collaboration on mountains between Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, Liechtenstein, Italy, Monaco, Slovenia and the European Community is defined by the Alpine Convention, the first international convention to encompass such an extensive land mass.

Thanks to financial support from the Government of Italy, 24 countries were able to establish long term institutional arrangements for mountains, building on the above mentioned national committees and the development of national strategies, plans and programmes for the sustainable development of mountain regions.

The International Year of Mountains built on chapter 13 of Agenda 21 elaborated at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development which focuses on mountain issues, and was dedicated to protecting mountain ecosystems and improving the well being of mountain people.

A recent analysis of the SeamountsOnline database (http www.seamounts.sdsc.edu) reveals 1,971 species recorded from 171 seamounts, mostly in the Pacific Ocean, with several in the Atlantic Ocean and only a few in the Indian Ocean.