Election climate in Nepal
The time has come for Nepal’s politicians to regard the climate crisis not as a problem, but an opportunity
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Himalayans on the frontlines
The double-barrel crisis of climate and Covid has hit Nepal’s Himalayan communities hard with its impact on livelihoods and the natural environment.I myself have...
Women and water
The climate crisis is a water crisis – either too much of it, or too little. Droughts have dried up springs, and...
Back to Glasgow, where it all began
World leaders must also take a walk, and undo the global crisis set off by the invention of the steam engine
Nepal doubles its carbon footprint
Nepal’s per capita greenhouse gas emission may be negligible compared to industrialised countries, but it has doubled in the last seven years. This...
Decarbonisation needs to begin today
The present concentration of carbon dioxide in earth’s atmosphere is the highest in 2 million years. The average atmospheric temperature in the decade 2011-2020 is...
Nepal needs weather stations in the Himalaya
This year’s monsoon season showed that precipitation is moving higher up the mountains to the trans-Himalayan valleys, creating a whole new dimension of flood...
Mountainous regions face catastrophic impacts without urgent climate action
Human activities are damaging the planet at an alarming and unprecedented rate. The latest report by the UN climate science body IPCC, released...
UN climate report declares planetary emergency
As if the drought, wildfire and flood disasters this year were not bad enough, scientists have warned that unless the world reduces emissions of greenhouse gases drastically, these...
Dirty politics = Dirty air
That Nepal’s political leadership does not care about the health of its people is abundantly clear from its handling of the Covid-19...
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