New Delhi:
Nepal cabinet meets at the Mount Everest base camp today to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.
More than 20 ministers, officials, journalists, and technicians reached Lukla in eastern Nepal yesterday and they travelled by helicopter to Kalapatthar, at 17,192 feet, in the Everest foothills for the meeting. The Cabinet intends to make a formal decision on Nepal's climate change policy and to endorse steps to protect the Himalayan environment.
Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar and members of his cabinet received a health check before flying to Everest Base Camp to hold a cabinet meeting.
The government hopes to highlight the threat from global warming to glaciers in the Himalayas.
While Nepal takes climate change talks at its height, last month the Maldives took the climate talks to the depth. The Maldives cabinet met underwater to discuss strategy ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit.
Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed and his ministers donned scuba gear to hold a meeting 4 meters under water in a lagoon. The Maldives is under serious climate change threat as it may be uninhabitable by the century's end, scientists have said, based on forecasts of rising sea levels.
More than 20 ministers, officials, journalists, and technicians reached Lukla in eastern Nepal yesterday and they travelled by helicopter to Kalapatthar, at 17,192 feet, in the Everest foothills for the meeting. The Cabinet intends to make a formal decision on Nepal's climate change policy and to endorse steps to protect the Himalayan environment.
Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar and members of his cabinet received a health check before flying to Everest Base Camp to hold a cabinet meeting.
The government hopes to highlight the threat from global warming to glaciers in the Himalayas.
While Nepal takes climate change talks at its height, last month the Maldives took the climate talks to the depth. The Maldives cabinet met underwater to discuss strategy ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit.
Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed and his ministers donned scuba gear to hold a meeting 4 meters under water in a lagoon. The Maldives is under serious climate change threat as it may be uninhabitable by the century's end, scientists have said, based on forecasts of rising sea levels.
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