Tag: #climate action
Articles tagged with #climate action
Going native at COP30
Indigenous peoples demand access to climate finance as world falls short of delivering on promises
Himalayan meltdown
Less lip service and more action needed to save what is left of the ice cap of High Asia
Combining IPCC targets with SDGs
The IPCC meet in China this week is urged to integrate Sustainable Development Goals with climate targets
How Nepal can finance climate action
Government must prepare to forcefully push the loss and damage agenda at COP28 in Dubai
1 step forward, 2 steps back in Nepal
Flip-flopping tax rates on battery powered vehicles undermine Nepal’s climate targets and public health
Nepali cities must champion climate action
The decisions urban centres take to combat the crisis today will shape the future
Women of the mountains
Photo: JITENDRA BAJRACHARYA/ICIMODDeputy Director General of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) Izabella…
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, Indigenous Peoples, women, and…
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 newsletters and…
Dalai Lama gets block of glacial ice
Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk presents Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama with with a block of ice cut out from a glacier in Ladakh’s…
Sino-American rift impacts climate action
Geopolitical and economic rivalry between China and the United States, the world’s two largest carbon emitters, distracted delegates at the…
COPOUT at COP26
The south face of Mt Gauri Shankar (7,134m) on the border between Nepal and China is bare rock, and shows how dramatically the snowline has…
Nepal’s greenwashing in Glasgow
Youth climate activist Greta Thunberg calls COP26 in Glasgow the ‘Global North Greenwashing Festival.’ But it is also developing countries like…
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 crisis.…
Turning green policies into greenbacks
Photo: KUNDA DIXITAlthough the Nepal budget this year cut tax breaks for electric vehicles and did not acknowledge a green path to post-COVID…
Cash for climate
The Nepal government’s response to the climate emergency often seems too little too late, and the scope of the global crisis is such that one…
Living below Nepal’s melting mountains
Gabions above Chukung with the summit of Lhotse peeking through the clouds last month. All photos: ALTON C BYERSIn an example of local people…
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…
Himalayan meltdown from space
Josh Maurer created 3D models of the changing Himalayan glaciers using spy satellite images from different angles dating back to the 1970s.…
Climate risk to hydropower investment
Photo: ALTON BYERSIn a normal winter, northern India and Nepal get 3-4 westerly disturbances. This year there were 12 frontal systems dumping…
From a fossil past to an electric future
PIPE DREAM: Part of a 69km petroleum pipeline connecting Amlekhganj in Nepal to an oil refinery in India, under construction in Patlaiya. The…