Recently, Nepal has announced the hosting of a conference involving ambassadors and stakeholders from the mountainous countries to discuss the minimization of climate change risk in the vulnerable countries. It is expected to be held in December, on International Mountain Day, 2022. Subsequently, Nepal is also hosting the Mountain Advocacy Summit next year in March in the district of Mustang.

Geographically, Nepal is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world for climate change. The Ministry of Forests and Environment Nepal (MOFE), recognizes climate change as a serious threat to the country’s health system, agricultural production, tourism, and the country’s economy and society as a whole. Adverse effects of climate change are already witnessed in Nepal, with the occurrence of diseases previously prevalent only in the Terai region of Nepal, now prevalent in the Hilly and even Himalayan regions of the country. “With the steady increase in temperature snowfall is decreasing every year in the Himalayas of Nepal,” says environment health expert Ruby Shrestha. She stresses on the importance of research on climate change to generate new knowledge and evidence about the climate change scenario in Nepal.