PM Oli calls for collaborative efforts to cope with climate crisis

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has stressed the need for collective efforts from the entire institutional and individual level from home and abroad to face climate change challenges.

In his address to a program organised today by the Ministry of Forests and Environment to review the 29th COP, the Prime Minister called for keeping nature clean with its sustainable protection through collaborative efforts.

He vowed that the government will take a lead with the management of climate finance to cope with the climate crisis.

Expressing his concern over increasing land dryness and its negative consequences, he insisted on the need for community awareness and efforts to prevent pollution caused by human activities.

“We have not contributed to global warming, but we are bearing the brunt of its impacts,” the Prime Minister said.

The climate change issues in mountains are not just the concerns of mountainous countries. The world temperature system is connected with the ecosystem of mountains, and degradation of the mountain’s role in keeping the atmosphere cool is a climate change challenge, according to the Prime Minister. “Our efforts should be for protecting the mountains and seas,” he stressed.

Reminding his voice that he put during the 79th United Nations General Assembly demanding climate compensation to Nepal, he said Nepal has protected 24 percent of its land for environment conservation. He also urged the stakeholders concerned to be prepared for COP 30 along with the evaluation of the 29th COP.

The UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29) was held in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 11-22.  The review focused on Nepal’s participation in the event, assessing efforts it is supposed to take ahead in the area of climate change.

Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Devendra Dahal, Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba, Minister for Forests and Environment, Ain Bahadur Shahi, Federal parliaments, UN resident representatives, policy makers and local level people’s representatives were present on the occasion.