Nepal calls for greater climate finance for mountain resilience
ANTALYA, TÜRKIYE: Nepal has called for increased climate adaptation financing and easier access to funding to help mountain regions cope with the escalating impacts of climate change.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Shisir Khanal made the call while addressing a high-level event titled 'Strengthening Mountain Resilience through Adaptation Finance' on the sidelines of the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Antalya on Monday.
Minister Khanal urged the international community to increase the volume and mobilisation of predictable and easily accessible climate finance to support adaptation efforts in mountain regions.
He noted that nearly one-third of the world's population depends directly on mountain ecosystems for their livelihoods and well-being and called for mountain resilience to receive greater attention within the global climate agenda.
Referring to the August 26 Bhotekoshi flood, Khanal highlighted the economic, physical and human losses caused by climate-induced disasters and stressed the need for stronger regional and international cooperation to protect mountain populations from increasingly severe climate impacts.
On global climate action, he called for continued efforts to keep the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius within reach and emphasised the importance of collective action in addressing the climate crisis.
The event was jointly hosted by Nepal, Bhutan and Kyrgyzstan in partnership with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the JOY Environment Network.
(With inputs from RSS)
