The Himalaya at a Tipping Point: A Roundtable on Collective Action

​We are pleased to invite you to an intimate breakfast roundtable at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. Together, we will explore what it will take to advance durable, community-led action across the Indian Himalaya.

​The Himalaya are changing faster than almost anywhere on Earth. Mountain and forest-dependent communities are experiencing some of the earliest and most severe consequences, despite having contributed least to global warming and often having the fewest resources to adapt.

​Important community-led conservation and restoration efforts are already underway across the region. Yet many remain fragmented, short-term, or disconnected from the institutions and resources needed to endure and operate across entire landscapes.

​This invitation-only roundtable will bring together conservation scientists, nonprofit practitioners, policy specialists, and leaders in institutional and diaspora philanthropy around one central question: What would it take to turn promising local efforts into durable, community-led action at a landscape scale across the Indian Himalaya?

​Brief framing remarks and invited interventions will give way to an open, facilitated discussion exploring what landscape-level action requires in evidence, governance, policy, partnerships, and financing—and where greater coordination could unlock meaningful progress.

​Convened by ATREE USA, drawing on the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment’s three decades of research and practice and the work of its Himalaya Initiative.

​Check out ATREE's full schedule and delegation for Climate Week NYC 2026.