Nepal seeks India and China climate co-operation in Himalayas
Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 16 Oct, 11:08 · Archive
Nepal's Prime Minister has proposed a Himalayan Climate Resilience Mechanism to unite India and China on shared climate threats.
Nepal's Prime Minister Balendra Shah has called for India and China to co-operate with Nepal on tackling climate threats in the Himalayas. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Shah proposed a Himalayan Climate Resilience Mechanism designed to strengthen cross-border disaster response and enable the sharing of scientific data and expertise across the region.
The proposal follows devastating debris floods that struck Nepal in August, highlighting the environmental fragility of the region. 'Let the Himalayas become a laboratory of international co-operation rather than a frontier of fragmented information,' Shah said. A senior official at Nepal's foreign ministry said the proposal was still at an early stage but that the ministry was working with other agencies to develop a preliminary framework for common understanding.
Neither India nor China has formally responded. The two countries remain locked in territorial disputes across their 3,500km shared frontier, much of it in the Himalayas. Their competing claims have led to a war, deadly clashes and repeated military stand-offs along the Line of Actual Control, the de facto boundary between areas under their control.
How it is being reported
- Japan and India must prepare for the risks of China’s Medog damInfrastructure investment in the Himalayas must go hand in hand with regional water cooperation and disaster resilience.The Japan Times · 16 Oct, 08:56
- India and China aren't friends - but Nepal wants to unite them against climate threatsCan Nepal bring the two regional giants together to confront a shared climate threat in the Himalayas?BBC Science · 15 Oct, 00:32
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