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Climate Change: A buzz word for rest of the world and a bitter reality for mountainous country like Nepal and other countries located near sea and ocean. Nepal is considered to be the fourth most vulnerable country to climate change due to its dependency on agriculture, high number of glacial lakes(2323) prone to outburst, its dependency on hydroelectricity for energy which are vulnerable to GLOF, and major contribution of tourism in country's GDP which is derived from mountains and biodiversity. Numbers of research are being carried out to develop correlation between climate change and livelihood of people and other associates of environment. A major question is can we really declare climate change is taking place due to irregularities of rainfall, temperature and melting snow? Whatever be the truth, some of the changes have been seen in the country and livelihood of people is being affected. Since contribution of Nepal to Global warming is negligible it is not very useful to aware people about mitigating climate change. Rather the focus is on adaptation part. Adapting to climate change, how?? Introduction of drought resistant crops, adapting alternative energy, protecting forest, proper research on exotic species destroying indigenous plants, developing early warning system to prevent from GLOF are few answers. But where does all the money and resources come from to carry out research and build those infrastructures? MEAs (multilateral environmental agreements), CDM (clean development mechanism), carbon trade, and green economy might be answer to these questions. But to take benefit from these sources country needs to strengthen its policy, its data base, its future strategies to adapt climate change and associated issues. So far donors have contributed lots of resources to develop strategies and to carry out adaptation measures, but no significant outcome has been observed or disseminated, except Climate Change Policy 2011. For Nepal climate change is not just an environmental challenge, it?s a challenge for its management and political system, it?s a challenge to people to develop local measures rather than looking for non-affordable international adaptation measures to safeguard themselves from Climate Change. |
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28 Comments
Thank you for sharing.
Posted 29-08-2013 19:36
Nice report
Posted 30-03-2013 01:56
I think its better not to rely upon others like donors INGOs or international arena only, we should develop our capability and strengthen our response mechanism ourselves as well to stand against climate change because we need to set up examples so that others help in our initiative. anyways thankx for sharing.
Posted 19-03-2013 23:26
Pratap I think NAPA and LAPA developed by Government of Nepal are also helping to address issue of Climate change.
Posted 17-03-2013 18:28
@Pratap Great to hear that! Really looking forward to it.
Posted 13-03-2013 10:11
@nil and sumit..thank you very much looking forward for further response in future as wel..
Posted 13-03-2013 10:00
@christy thank you very much..my team will try to share some detailed information in near future
Posted 13-03-2013 09:59
good job
Posted 12-03-2013 20:28
Nice report helping understand of the situation Nepal is facing. Good job!
Posted 12-03-2013 10:54
nice report and congrats pratap being ambassador to Nepal
Posted 09-03-2013 01:21
I love this report.. thank you
Posted 08-03-2013 07:50
nice pic
Posted 08-03-2013 00:35
good
Posted 08-03-2013 00:35
@ titus and simran thank you very much
Posted 07-03-2013 22:02
good report
Posted 06-03-2013 19:20
Thanks for sharing
Posted 06-03-2013 02:49
@roshan..thank you looking forward for your suggestions as well to make it even better
Posted 05-03-2013 22:38
@Amba very true, however livelihood of people upstream and downstream is also more vulnerable due GLOF and other issues..
Posted 05-03-2013 22:37
really interesting pratap
Posted 05-03-2013 19:45
climate change is more vulnerable to agriculture.thanks for sharing
Posted 05-03-2013 18:35
nice article pratap...
Posted 05-03-2013 09:52
interesting article...
Posted 05-03-2013 02:51
@laxmi dahal..yes but I thought its better to share at this platform as well...thank you for your comment
@Unmesh ..so far I know government has established a special unit to address issues related to CC and with support of British government, Nepalese Government is trying to launch community based adaptation measures mobilizing CBOs..
Posted 05-03-2013 02:00
Nice report.
Posted 05-03-2013 01:57
@aman thank you very much
Posted 05-03-2013 01:45
Adaptation to climate change scenario is required but more than that, proactive action plan to combat the issue is required...Nepal has any specific action plan on these issues at the federal level?
Posted 04-03-2013 22:40
you already have posted in world report anyway nice info..........
Posted 04-03-2013 22:02
Nice report!
Posted 04-03-2013 21:59