HKH Climate Governance: Community to Transboundary Adaptation and Mitigation

The Hindu Kush Himalaya regions spans mountains to lowlands, harbors critical ecosystems, and is home to an extremely wide diversity of cultures, practices, and knowledge systems – all impacted significantly by climate change and variability. From the community to national to regional scales, actions are ongoing to cope with and respond to rising temperatures, variable rain and snowfall, invasive species, land use change, and other climatic risk factors. This session will address adaptation and mitigation governance approaches using transdisciplinary science-policy perspectives. Focal topics of interest include but are not limited to ecosystem services, water resources, cryosphere dynamics, energy transitions, social equity and justice, agriculture and food systems, disaster risk and resilience, local or indigenous knowledge, lowlands-highlands interactions, and regional and transboundary perspectives. Case studies, comparative assessments, and broader conceptual presentations are welcome, but speakers should aim to address at least one of the following in their presentations: climate impacts, climate risks, adaptation, adaptive management, impact mitigation, or carbon mitigation.