Carolina Adler,^1,* Jörg Balsiger,² Adrienne Grêt-Regamey,³ Andreas Heinimann,⁴ Christian Huggel,⁵ Rolf Weingartner,⁶ Irasema Alcántara-Ayala,⁷ Aster Gebrekirstos,⁸ Ricardo Grau,⁹ Elizabeth Jimenez,¹⁰ Robert Marchant,¹¹ Bryan Mark,¹² Shawn Marshall,¹³ Samuel Morin,¹⁴ Maria Shahgedanova,¹⁵ Mandira Singh Shrestha,¹⁶ Jianchu Xu<sup>17

1</sup>Mountain Research Initiative, c/o Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Mittlestrasse 43, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
²Institute for Environmental Governance and Territorial Development, University of Geneva, Uni Carl Vogt, 66 Bd Carl-Vogt, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
³PLUS, Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems, ETH Zurich, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
⁴Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
⁵Climate and Environment: Impacts, Risks and Adaptation (Eclim), Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
⁶Hydrology, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
⁷Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Av. Universidad 3000, Coyoacán, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
⁸World Agroforestry (ICRAF), United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, PO Box 30677, Nairobi, 00100, Kenya
⁹Instituto de Ecología Regional, (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán), CC 34, Código Postal 34–4107, Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina
¹⁰CIDES - UMSA Graduate Program on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences of the Universidad Mayor de San Andres, Calle Rosasani No. 55, Obrajes, La Paz, Bolivia
¹¹York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems, Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
¹²Department of Geography, Ohio State University, 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
¹³Department of Geography, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
¹⁴Université Grenoble Alpes, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, CNRM, Centre d'Etudes de la Neige, 38000 Grenoble, France
¹⁵Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Whiteknights PO Box 217, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AH, United Kingdom
¹⁶International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal
¹⁷Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Heilongtan, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China

^* Corresponding author: carolina.adler@unibe.ch