ANTALYA, Nov 10: Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal has stressed the need to mobilise and expand access to adaptation finance to protect mountain regions from the impacts of climate change.
He made the remarks while addressing a high-level event titled ‘Strengthening Mountain Resilience through Adaptation Finance’, held on the sidelines of the 31st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31), which began on Monday in Antalya, Türkiye.
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Nepal, Bhutan and Kyrgyzstan jointly organised the event in collaboration with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Joy Environment Network.
Addressing the event, Minister Khanal spoke about the economic, physical and human losses caused by the devastating ‘Himalayan tsunami’ that recently struck Nepal. He said regional and global solidarity and cooperation were necessary to strengthen the resilience of mountain regions against the growing impacts of climate change.
Pointing out that nearly one third of the world's population directly depends on mountain ecosystems, he said the resilience of mountain regions must receive priority attention in the United Nations climate change process.
Emphasising the need to increase the volume and mobilisation of predictable and easily accessible climate finance for adaptation, Khanal called on the international community to maintain the possibility of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
