Climate Action Champions Network to engage South Asian youths to lead climate action policies

KATHMANDU: The Climate Action Champions Network (CACN) is engaging 100 individuals from five South Asian countries – India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan – for their potential to lead climate action policies and initiatives in their home countries and in the wider South Asia and Indo-Pacific Region. The Network has called individuals between the […]

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Tens of thousands march for climate action in Dutch capital

THE HAGUE, Nov 13: Tens of thousands of people took part in a march through Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands on Sunday, calling for action to tackle the challenges of climate change. An estimated 85,000 people participated in the demonstration, according to organizers.

AIIB launches climate action plan to tackle climate change

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Sep 26: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on Monday launched its Climate Action Plan (CAP), which it refers to as "a milestone" in its ongoing commitment to combatting climate change. Designed to guide the AIIB's climate ambiti

World Bank urges Nepal for scaled-up climate action

The World Bank Group has urged Nepal for comprehensive and scaled-up climate action so that climate change will not continue to jeopardize gains in Nepal’s human development and poverty reduction.

Holding up 1/2 the sky on climate action

Indra Maya Tamang waters her farm in Kavre. She is a participant of agricultural and entrepreneurship training provided by UN Women with Finland’s support. Photo: UN WOMEN/MERIT MAHARJAN epal is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change. Himalayan glaciers are melting at an exceptional rate, threatening the lives and […]

Indo-Pak tension hits SAARC climate action

Tilicho Lake in Manang. The SAARC member states are among the countries most at risk from effects of climate change, yet a regional approach to tackle the issue is lacking. Photo: RSS t the 18th SAARC Summit in Kathmandu in 2014, member countries committed to work together against climate change, and raise a collective voice at […]

Sino-American rift impacts climate action

eopolitical and economic rivalry between China and the United States, the world’s two largest carbon emitters, distracted delegates at the COP26 Climate Summit from finding ways to help poorer countries address the climate crisis. The needs of countries like Nepal, which are trying to adapt to melting mountains, erratic monsoons, droughts and floods, were therefore sidelined. With […]

Educating girls for climate action

Photos: BRITISH EMBASSY s the UK Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Girls’ Education, I am lucky enough to meet girls and governments in many different countries. Last week I was delighted to visit Nepal to learn more about the challenges, and solutions, to increase girls’ education in response to the school closures because of the […]