climate

Working with nature to protect people

IFRC and WWF join hands to promote nature-based solutions for climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction

From the North Pole to the Third Pole

Himalayan nations can get tips on how Arctic Circle countries cooperated in coping with the climate crisis

Women of the mountains

Deputy Director General of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) Izabella Koziell recently won the UN Women Rise and Raise...

Taking climate finance to the people

Imagine a world where the people hit hardest by climate crisis have a say in how to stop it. Imagine that youth,...

Are Climate Summits a Waste of Time?

Next month, the latest annual United Nations climate extravaganza, COP27, will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Last year it was in Glasgow....

Nepal’s ‘spray and pray’ approach to agriculture

It makes up one-third of the GDP, but this year’s budget failed to confer farming the importance it deserves

Potholes on the highway to Nepal’s EV future

Electric vehicles are making a splash in Nepal, sales have seen a spurt in the past two years. But a lot more work needs...

Living with climate anxiety

I start every day scrolling through my phone for updates on climate change. My email has become a landing zone for climate...

Climate smart Ramkali Mahato

Ramkali Mahato from Sarlahi in Nepal’s southern plains was only 12 when she got married. “As a daughter-in-law, I quickly learned to...

Keep the flag flying in 2022

Exactly one year ago, this newspaper restarted its hardcopy edition 10 month after going digital-only. The 1 January 2021 #1042 of Nepali...