By Erik Lundberg, Finland's Ambassador to Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Seychelles and Permanent Representative to the UN Environment Programme and UN-Habitat.
The changes we need are huge—time is short
Our planet and humankind face three unprecedented, mutually reinforcing challenges: climate change, the loss of biodiversity and the overuse of critical natural resources.
In the past year, we...
The government has started preparations to operate a yearly program named ‘Sagarmatha Sambad’ with an objective to hold a discourse every year on the burning of the time across the world.
To hold such interaction is a positive step on itself. Influenced by the regional and international interactions, the government...
Human beings are a component of biodiversity. Biodiversity is vital for maintaining the existence and making the human life meaningful. But the recent human-centered activities have been destroying the biodiversity. Now there are only 10 percent of the biodiversity that existed on earth when human beings appeared around 13...
Kathmandu-- On 12th May, the Ministry of Forest and Environment registered a bill in the parliament to amend and integrate the existing Environment Protection Act (EPA) of Nepal. But the environmental experts, professionals, scientists and practitioners expressed their concern regarding some of the provisions in the bill that is supposed...
Kathmandu— On April 25, 2019, we marked fourth anniversary of great earthquake that hit the Himalayan nation on April 25, 2015 which claimed 8790 lives and injured nearly 22,300.
Four years has elapsed since the disaster struck but reconstruction of private and public buildings are yet to be completed. Still,...
Kathmandu-- “I know I am so blessed to have two places in the world that I am now lucky enough to call home. However, as blessed as I am, for me this comes with constant cultural struggles including a daily routine of reflecting, processing and understanding so much that...
A well that had water until last year has run dry this year. There is not a single drop of water. Now, the tanker has become the source of water. The road dug last year for laying drinking water pipes is still muddy. The rural water sources are rapidly...
The draft policy neither reviews the state of implementation of the Climate Change Policy 2011 nor considers the most relevant policies of the then government led by UML.
By Batu Uprety
The Government has followed a theme-based approach in formulating Climate Change Policy, 2075 (BS). The preliminary draft policy which circulated...
Kathmandu - Nepal is all set to launch its own satellite in the space on April 17. Once the satellite named as ‘Bud Three’ is launched into the outer space, Nepal will receive information from its own satellite. NAST says the satellite will capture photos of various places of...
A large share of the world’s population, today, is living in urban areas and experts estimate that the proportion of people living in urban areas will increase in the coming years. According to United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 55 percent of the world’s population lives in...
