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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. But where does all the money come from to carry out research and build those infrastructure? 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, its a challenge for its management and political system, its 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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18 Comments
Really informative
Posted 28-12-2013 13:05
Yeah I also want to meet you as soon as possible. Call me on cell no. 9844197966 to find me, if possible.
Posted 17-03-2013 17:36
Climate change is a challenge, indeed.
Posted 16-03-2013 05:05
thank you simran...
Posted 15-03-2013 21:51
thank you very much Dhiroj, looking forward to meeting personally and digging out more information on Nepal's existing environmental situation..
Posted 15-03-2013 21:51
thank you very much Christy
Posted 15-03-2013 21:47
Thanks for the Nice Report Pratap
Posted 13-03-2013 17:29
This is a very informative article. Thank you Pratap, I could feel the reality of Nepal's nature is facing well.
Posted 11-03-2013 17:42
vERY Nice article about my Nation Nepal.
Posted 08-03-2013 11:57
thank you very much...its my job and i will continue doing it..looking forward for your response
Posted 07-03-2013 22:25
thanks pratap posting article about Nepal.
Posted 06-03-2013 09:30
@Janak very true..
Posted 05-03-2013 02:09
thanks pratap. we the youth should have work in coordination for the any successful result.........
Posted 04-03-2013 11:28
thank you all...please shoot comments what more I have to do to improve..looking forward to receiving your suggestions.
Posted 03-03-2013 23:36
thanks pratap i am happy to see Nepalese ambassador report............
Posted 03-03-2013 10:21
thank you pratap for the info and happy to see new ambassador report here........
Posted 03-03-2013 09:44
thank you for the sharing pratap.......
Posted 03-03-2013 09:38
Thank you Pratap for the information.
Looking forwards to know more ..........
Cheers^^
Vanja
Posted 02-03-2013 23:36