Baku (Azerbaijan), November 13: President Ramchandra Paudel has called for mountain countries and maritime countries to work together in an integrated manner with a common program in the coming days to avoid the effects of climate risk.
He made the call while addressing the high-level ’round table’ meeting titled ‘Addressing climate-related damage and losses in mountainous areas’ organized by Nepal today under the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-29) which started this Monday in the city of Baku, Azerbaijan. . “Because the impact of the climate risk in mountainous countries can affect maritime countries and rise above the sea coast, I sincerely call upon mountain countries and maritime countries to work together in a unified way with a common program in the coming days”, President Paudel said.
President Paudel said that developed nations that mainly emit carbon and nations that grow at a rapid rate should provide more support to nations that are at high climate risk. “I believe that the 29th climate conference will be successful in managing more climate finance”, he said. President Paudel said that this program was organized because climate change is a common challenge for all of us and we all have to make common understanding and common efforts to deal with it.
“We believe that it will be easier to understand and solve the problem by bringing countries that are affected by climate change together and discussing it,” he said.
President Paudel said that it is natural for everyone to think that their own problems are big, but the challenge of climate problems faced by Nepal in recent days is very heartbreaking. “Three months ago, when the snow lake near Everest, the world’s highest peak, erupted, the entire Thame village was swept away, while there was zero human activity in that area,” he said. Similarly, President Paudel informed that in the past three months, more than 500 people have lost their lives due to climate-related disasters in Nepal alone, and more than a billion have been lost. He was of the opinion that this type of damage would be caused by the recent floods and inundation in Spain and the storm that hit the Caribbean region last July.
“Nobody knows when and when this humanitarian crisis will happen tomorrow, but helping the country that is in trouble today is a humanitarian religion”, President Paudel said. He made a special call to include the damage loss in the new overall numerical target for climate finance management as the effects of climate change are multifaceted. Finally, President Paudel called on the world community to protect nature.
Addressing the special session, the President of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyar Zaparov, drew attention to the impact of climate change on the ecological system of the mountainous region and the lifestyle of the people there, and expressed the opinion that the Secretariat of the United Nations Parties to Climate Change should prepare an action plan and proceed with it. As a mountainous country, the President of Kyrgyzstan, who organized a special session here today, emphasized the need for cooperation between the countries most affected by climate change. On that occasion, Forest and Environment Minister Ain Bahadur Shahi Thakuri informed about the problems faced by Nepal due to climate change.
The heads and representatives of development partner organizations such as the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ISMOD), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), along with high-ranking officials from the United Kingdom, France, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan and other countries who participated in the special session, discussed the impact of climate change on the world and its challenges. And had an opinion about the aspects that should be addressed.
