Under the slogan “Learn, Value and Act for the Mountains” the MOUTAIN & WATER Pavilion brought together more than 80’000 people from 90 countries, including climate negotiators, ministers, CEOs, indigenous leaders, civil society leaders and researchers

Important take-aways from the Pavillon  were calls for more climate finance and respect for human rights. Keynote speeches and other footage are now available in our video archive.

The Mountain & Water Pavilion has the aim to highlight ecosystems and mountain population and the water, as key elements to the sustainable development in the framework of climate change. It has the following objectives: i) to link relevant actors and to generate a common knowledge on challenges and opportunities of the sustainable development of mountain and water address climate change; ii) to identify effective solutions to challenges and opportunities, to promote a collective actions, and to mobilize financial resources; iii) to link discussions and thoughts among UNFCCC members and to talk over the post2015 development agenda; and iv) to promote the knowledge among these topics.

Under its four themes i) Water, Glaciers and Basins; ii) Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Food Security; iii) Risk Management; and iv) Goods and Services of the mountains, investment and beneficiaries, the pavilion seeks, in a playful and didactic way, to display ecosystems and mountain populations as fundamental elements for sustainable development in the context of climate change.

Switzerland was one of the main partners of the Mountain & Water Pavilion, an initiative of the peruvian government. The Mountain & Water Pavilion is an initiative to join a set of public and private institutions and the international cooperation to COP20 and the legacy towards the national climate agenda.

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