Invitation to e-Conference on Climate Change and the Himalayan Glaciers

Hello Readers,

EAN is a member driven professional organisation of Environment Science, Environment Management and Environmental Engineering university graduates and professionals having long experience in the field of environment and development with special focus in Nepal.

Established in 2003, EAN aims to strengthen cooperation among the concerned professionals and build a network of like minded people and organisations in Nepal and abroad to ensure environmental sustainability in Nepal

We are pleased to inform you that the Environmentalists' Association of Nepal (EAN) in association with the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology (MoEST), Government of Nepal, is organising an e-conference on "Climate Change and the Himalayan Glaciers" form 7th May 2007 to 28th May 2007, to celebrate the World Environment Day in Nepal and the Himalaya. The event is supported by many international, regional, national organisations based in Nepal and abroad.

The objective of this e-conference is to facilitate a series of dialogues on the e-conference theme between different stakeholders. Synthesis of the first event in this series will be released on 5 June 2007, to mark the World Environment Day 2007. The e-conference is being organised to realise a need to promote knowledge sharing mechanism on the e-conference theme.

It's our great pleasure to invite you all to the e-conference and we hope your participation will be very useful in exploring and documenting various issues related to climate change and its impacts in particular to the youngest and most fragile mountain range of the world and also to promote information sharing mechanism in the region.

More information is available online at http://www.freewebs.com/climatehimalaya/index.htm .

You may also subscribe to the e-conference by sending your preferred email ID, full name and affiliation, if applicable.

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you need more information or any clarification regarding the e-conference. You are also requested to forward the invitation to any individual or institutions, who you think would be interested to join and contribute.

We look forward to seeing your active participation in the e-conference.

Once again, welcome one and all, and thank you for joining us: We look forward to getting to know you!

With best regards,

Dr. Madan Koirala and Mr. Tek Jung Mahat
On behalf of the E-conference team
URL: http://www.freewebs.com/climatehimalaya/index.htm
Email: climatehimalaya@gmail.com

C/o Environmentalists' Association of Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal
E-mail: eannepal@gmail.com
Web: http://www.ean.org.np/
Tel: 977 1 4410565, 4421071
Fax: 977 1 4411730--

"The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die." - Martin Luther King

Source: email correspondence to Mr Samuel Thomas, ATREE's Communications Officer from Tek Jung Mahat at tmahat@icimod.