31 Oct 2023 2 min to read
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges to visit Nepal Himalayas for climate impact witnessing who is in Nepal for a 4-day visit. He emphasized that the rapid climate impact results in the rapid melting down of glaciers which further brings catastrophe. In the last decade alone, Nepal’s glaciers melted 65% faster as compared to the previous. This is alarming and under-developed nations like Nepal are paying the price of this global climate change.
He highlighted the present rapid climate change impact is frightening. If this continues then in no time, there won’t be snows in the Himalayas. It further will lead to scarcity of water that will directly affect living beings and other creatures. Furthermore, he urges the members of COP 28 to come and witness the impact live.
The call for attention by Guterres for an urgent need for global collaboration and measures to address climate change in the Himalayan region. Most people living in South Asia and Southeast Asia are directly affected by this climate impact. Overall, implications both on environmental and socio-economic aspects are a need of the present.
An immediate call for action and collaborative intensive effort to minimize this impact is essential for this situation. The necessary actions that are compatible with changing climate patterns and effects in the Himalayas must be diligently addressed.
Guterres emphasizes the safeguarding of these mountains and glacier melting by ending the harmful environmental practices that directly contribute to climate change.
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