‘Climate change impacts are adverse in Nepal’

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that Nepal is among the countries having adverse impacts of climate change.

Receiving a memorandum calling for an end to the use of coal energy, Deuba claimed that Nepal has been disproportionately bearing the brunt of climate change despite negligible contribution to the carbon emission.

The former Prime Minister emphasized the need of global efforts for its compensation to the affected countries. Due to global rise in temperature, Nepal’s icebergs are increasingly melting and unintended weather variations have mounting impacts on lives and livelihoods of the people, he noted.

Recalling that he had pledged to maintain net zero emission by 2045 BS on behalf of Nepal in the COP-2026 held in Glasgow of the United Kingdom, he stressed that Nepal should gradually increase the use of electric energy.