Kathmandu- Nepal’s national adaptation plan, which aims to minimize or avoid the damages from the impacts of climate change, is now at the advanced stage, according to UN Climate Change Annual Report 2017.
Nepal has been projected as a successful example at a time when discussions between negotiators from nearly 200 countries have resumed in Germany to finalize a guideline on Paris climate pact.
“Nepal and Liberia were the first countries to receive a Green Climate Fund grant (USD 2.9 million for Nepal) to create their national adaptation plans. Nepal’s national adaptation plan is now at an advanced stage,” the report says.
Nepal is an example of a country that has taken advantage of the Convention’s adaptation architecture to build strong national systems for adaptation, according to the report.
In 2010, this mountainous, least developed country, whose primary climate change risk is from flooding caused by glacial melt and intense rainfall, developed a national programme of action on adaptation to address urgent and immediate needs in its most vulnerable communities, according to the report.
This programme was followed a year later by a national policy that directs at least 80 per cent of climate finance to community-level activities and the setting up of a national programme to support implementation of the national adaptation plan. According to report, these initiatives have created the right environment for progress in work on adaptation.
