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Alliance in the Alps
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News
€100,000 for exemplary climate protection in the Alps
At a ceremony held in Bern/CH on 6 November, the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA) awarded prizes for outstanding climate protection to seven municipalities, businesses and organisations, the winners of its cc.alps competition held across the Alps. Weather expert Thomas Bucheli and CIPRA President Dominik Siegrist presented the prizes worth a total of €100,000. More
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Members
The latest member of the network ist the "Region amKumma" in Vorarlberg / A. Over 270 communities throughout the Alps from France to Slovenia joined the "Alliance in the Alps" local authority network to implement the goals of the Alpine Convention for sustainable development in the Alps together. More members
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Good Practice
Listed here are successful projects which contribute in an exemplary way to sustainable development in the Alps as set out in the Alpine Convention. The topics range from regional development or agriculture to energy, traffic or tourism.
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Latest edition of the Journal of Alpine Research now available online
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The latest edition of the international and multidisciplinary “Journal of Alpine Research” is now available online under the title “Mountain Regions as Referents for Collective Action”. It addresses the question of the conditions under which a mountain range can serve as a reference for a regional network and contains previously unpublished papers on politics, organisations and regional identity in the Alpine Arc and other mountain areas. In her article on “The institutionalization of the alpine region: an analysis based on a study of two pan-alpine networks (Alliance in the Alps and Alparc)”, Cristina Del Biaggio describes the role of networks in the process of uniting the countries of the Alps to form one big cross-border region. Among other things, the author describes the functions and challenges faced by “Alliance in the Alps” and the role played by CIPRA in the foundation of the community network.
Bilingual articles are available for download at:
http://rga.revues.org/ (fr/en).
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The alps are affected particularly severely by the consequences of climate change. There are particular opportunities in the Alps for counteracting the causes and consequences of climate change using sustainable development strategies. Thus the Alps have a great opportunity for becoming a model region for climate protection. The climate action plan to be passed by the X Alpine Conference (Conference of Ministers) in France in 2009 provides an excellent opportunity to do so. How this intention could succeed is illustrated in the climate pact. Climate pact for signature
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