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Will Nepal ever be paid for saving trees?
Photo: KUNDA DIXITLast week, the Nepal government signed a carbon trading agreement with the Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest Finance…
Nepal can lead in zero-carbon
The 100kWp Solar Mini Grid in Gutu of Surkhet. All photos: Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC)We are at a critical moment for the future…
Climate, COVID-19 and China
As the COVID-19 pandemic grips the world, some have seen a silver lining in a reported decrease in carbon emissions and pollution levels.…
Declaring an emergency
Photo : GOPEN RAI/NT ARCHIVEThe Sagarmatha National Sambaad held this week was a dress rehearsal for a bigger international event slated for…
Global heating melts mountains
Mount Cho Oyu (8,188m) and Nepal's longest glacier, The Ngozumba, seen from a mountain sightseeing flight on Yeti Airlines this week. Photo:…
Nepal must prepare for climate migration
HIGH AND DRY: A village in Mustang is one of the increasing number of settlements that have been abandoned because of water shortage caused by…
MIGRATION MITIGATION
Photo: GOPEN RAIIn the strict legalese that the United Nations is accustomed to, the Madrid Climate Summit is called the 25th Conference of the…
The carbon footprint of tourism
Transport-related emissions from tourism are expected to increase to 5.3% of all man-made CO2 emissions in the next 10 years, according to a…
High cost lays aviation low in Nepal
Kathmandu has the highest fuel and handling costs of any airport in the world, and the poorest facilities
It's a jungle out there in Nepal and the Amazon
UP IN SMOKE: Failure of successive monsoons led to massive fires across Nepal, shown in a NASA satellite image from 12 March 2009, which covered…
Tourism, aviation and carbon
CARBON NEUTRAL: Yeti Airlines has a policy to cut carbon use with more fuel-efficient ATR-72 aircraft, and battery-powered vans.Last month,…
MUSTN’T BLAME EVERYTHING ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Photo: KUNDA DIXITThere is a tendency on the part of governments to blame everything on climate change. It lets them off the hook. In Nepal, a…
Bhutan is on the move
The world’s first carbon-negative country absorbs more CO2 than it burns
Act globally, think locally
Dozers were required for the rescue of stranded locals and their motorbikes in Kavre during the floods caused by incessant rainfall across the…
Life in the time of tornadoes
Tornado in Bara. Photo: RSSThis is the season for windstorms, and even though the whirlwind that hit the central Tarai on 31 March killing 28…