Let’s raise voice for climate justice in international forums: President Paudel

It is necessary for countries like Nepal that have no role in climate change needs to raise voice for climate justice in every international forum, remarked President Ram Chandra Paudel inaugurating the 11th Nepal Geological Congress organized by the Nepal Geological Society on Monday. He said the topic of climate change should be taken to the international community.     

The Head of State said that developing and least-developed countries like Nepal that have no role at all in bringing about climate change also being affected due to the rampant industrialization, exploitation of fossil fuels and carbon emission by the developed world. They should raise the issue of climate justice with loud and clear voice. 

President Paudel stressed cooperation and collaboration for addressing these types of issues directly concerned with the lives of people on burning issues like the urgent need to minimize the impact of climate change and natural disasters and their minimization. 

Stating that there has been an unusual increase in global warming, he expressed concern over the rapid melting of snow turning most of the mountains bare and the huge loss of life and property from excessive rainfall, landslide and soil erosion every year for the last three decades. The President further said earthquakes occurring in mountain areas time and again have become a problem in the development construction of Nepal, expressing that though some natural disasters could be predicted, problems have surfaced due to the inability to invent a mechanism that could predict earthquakes.