Tag: #mitigation
Articles tagged with #mitigation
Climate-health emergency
A dengue patient being treated from inside a mosquito net at Teku hospital, Kathmandu. Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAAn unusually wet monsoon, increased…
The climate threat multiplier
Lhotse glacier, Chukung village to the far left. Photo: ALTON C BYERSMost of the recent talk within the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
Nepal’s electric transport future is here
RENEWABLE TRANSPORT: Symbolic gestures like President Bidya Devi Bhandari using an electric limousine, and more practical tax breaks for EVs…
Tall Order
Pic: BIKRAM RAISuresh Shakya (pictured above) was sitting down for lunch with his family in his house in Itum Bahal four years ago when there…
Shaking up the health sector
Nepal’s hospitals have not even recovered from the 2015 earthquake, and now need to be ready for the Next Big One
Lessons Unlearnt
Photo: BIKRAM RAIFour years later, Central Nepal is still being rocked by aftershocks of 2015. That peculiar earthquake shook everything to the…
Ground zero in Pheta
Unprecedented, but not unforeseen
Disastrous management in Nepal
Photo: RSST he tornado that killed dozens of people on the night of 31 March highlighted Nepal’s vulnerability to disasters. It proved that…
The new normal
PHOTO: KIRAN NEPALThe devastating storm that ravaged Bara and Parsa districts on Sunday night leaving at least 30 people dead and hundreds…
From playing victim to proactive leadership on climate
Gebru Jember Endalew has been involved in UN negotiations on climate change since 2008 as a core member of the Ethiopian negotiating team. Last…
Turning on the heat
Photo: GEORGE MALLORY Unprecedented in recorded history, there was a 100 degree C difference in temperature between the northern and southern…
Climate damage
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIClimate change is global, it does not respect national boundaries. Neither should its solution. The only way we can…