Welcome to Mountains Connect, an online information source about transboundary + regional mountain governance!
Mountains Connect highlights knowledge about the importance of transboundary and regional collaboration for sustainable mountain development around the world, contributing to the UN Five Years of Action for the Development of Mountain Regions.
This webspace was launched to support the Interregional Mountains CONNECT exchange framework. Click on the video below to get an impression of the First Mountains CONNECT workshop in Vienna, Austria in June 2022:
The Second Mountains Connect Workshop is held between 16-19 February 2026 in Bhutan, co-hosted by the Royal Government of Bhutan, the UN Environment Programme, and ICIMOD.
The information on this site is organized along seven dimensions of mountain range governance (MRG) and eight mountain regions. The videos offer an overview of the respective governance dimension with insights from key actors around the world.
A special thanks to all the mountain experts for making the knowledge videos a reality!
Video 1: Locating mountains in governance
Video 2: Crafting collaboration
Video 3: Policy integration
Video 4: Coordinating multiple levels of governance
Video 5: Including civil society
Video 6: Bringing science and policy together
Video 7: Funding sustainable mountain development
In June 2023, a delegation from the Andean Mountain Initiative visited the Alpine Convention and Carpathian Convention to promote exchange and learning. The lessons learnt and opportunities are elaborated in the Mountains Connect Brief: Experience exchange between the Andes, Alps and Carpathians – Exploring mountain governance paths for climate resilient development.
The pages dedicated to each mountain region present regional profiles, summaries of the governance dimensions appearing in the respective video, and links to additional resources.