The Nepal Weekly 
March 4, 2025
Preparations for the much talked ‘Sagarmatha Sambaad’ have been accelerated. The multi-stakeholder dialogue forum is being organized in Nepal on the theme ‘Climate Change, Mountains and the Future of Humanity’. It is committed to deliberating on the most prominent issues of global, regional and national significance.
The ‘Sagarmatha Sambaad’ is scheduled to take place from May 16-18 with an objective of highlighting the problems facing mountainous and costal countries due to climate change.
The first meeting of a management committee, formed for the preparation of the ‘Sambaad,’ on Sunday decided to invite heads of the nation and government of mountainous and costal countries, experts working in the climate research sector, representatives of national and international private sectors and influential figures.
The committee formed under the coordination of Foreign Minister Dr Arzu Rana Deuba has prepared the format for the arrangement of infrastructures and programmes for ‘Sagarmatha Sambaad’, said contact person of the Sambaad and joint-secretary of the Ministry of Forests and Environment, Maheshwor Dhakal. The committee also took the decision to form an expert committee comprising 16 experts of different sectors as well as publicity and coordination committee under coordination of joint-secretary of the Foreign Ministry.
The meeting decided to request the partner organization for demonstration of good practices to mitigate impacts of climate change.
According to Dhakal, dialogue would be held in province-level, preparatory dialogue on the issue of children and youths would be held, Foreign Ministry, Forest Ministry and Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers would assign the employees required for the ‘Sagarmatha Sambaad’ and Sagarmatha Sambaad Secretariat would be activized.
Minister for Forests and Environment, Ain Bahadur Shahi Thakuri, is the co-coordinator of the committee where Chief Secretary, officials of Office of the PM and Council of Ministers, Foreign Ministry, Finance Ministry, Home Ministry, National Planning Commission, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Alternative Energy Promotion Centre and National Trust for Nature Conservation are the members.
Similarly, Forests secretary is the member-secretary of the Committee. The previous meeting of the Preparations Committee meeting was held on Magh 27 (February 9) in the presence of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. Inviting heads of the states or the heads of the governments from India, China and South Asian countries to the Dialogue was the agenda of the meeting.
