Tag: #COP26
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4 months after Glasgow, Nepal’s goals look iffy
Photo: KUNDA DIXITIt has been four months since the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow during which the world’s leaders agreed to cut down carbon…
Breathing can kill you
Vehicles are one of the biggest emitters of PM2.5 and other pollutants in Kathmandu. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIIt is that time of the year again…
Post-COP26, Nepal’s real work now begins
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIAfter the flashflood of international media coverage of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the climate emergency has now…
Agroecology, Nepal’s answer to climate change
Agriculture is one of the largest contributors to climate change but can also be one of the most significant solutions. All photos: ZACHARY…
Good COP, bad COP
Kathmandu shrouded in smoke and smog from stubble and industrial pollution from northern India, as well as the valley's own vehicular emissions…
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…
Waving the green flag
Photo: SHAIL SHRESTHAThe climate summit in Glasgow is coming to an end today. For the past two weeks, leaders and activists from around 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…
Nepal can up forest cover to 45% by 2030
Chitlang, Makwanpur. Photo: KUNDA DIXITPrime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba announced at COP26 last week that Nepal would increase forest cover to…
Urgency about Nepal’s economic emergency
Nepal Rastra Bank’s report last month was badly timed — it was a bad idea to sound a warning that Nepal is going belly up just as the country…
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…
Net Zero is not zero
Photo: PROJECT SYNDICATEIt may seem as if the world is finally taking the climate crisis seriously, judging by the number of pledges to reach…
Cycle to fight climate change
It must be a cosmic confluence that just as the world leaders gather in Glasgow next week to try to save the planet, we in Nepal mark the tragic…
Think globally in Glasgow, and act locally
Chanaute after the flood on the Melamchi River in 2021. All photos: RAJU PANDIT CHHETRIOn 15 June, the Melamchi River north of Kathmandu saw a…
Nepal needs to get its climate act together
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden address the 76th UN General Assembly on 21 September. Photos: XINHUAThe United Nations…
A hotter Himalaya
The muddy waters of the Indrawati bringing down the Melamchi flood at left merging with the Bhote Kosi at Dolalghat on Monday. Photo:…
We’ve seen fire, and we’ve seen rain
Prolonged winter drought caused nationwide wildfires in Nepal, and this was followed by destructive floods at the start of the monsoon. Photos:…
Underreporting the climate emergency
Nepal is suffering more frequent disasters, but the way they are covered in the country’s media does not link them to the global climate…
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…