Nepal bearing the brunt of global warming, says Minister Mansoor
Even though Nepal’s contribution to emission of Green House Gases (GHGs) is negligible, it is bearing severe brunt of global warming caused by huge emissions by industrialised countries.
In a statement issued on the occasion of World Environment Day, Thursday, Minister for Environment, Science and Technology Formullah Mansoor has appealed to all to start reducing emission of such gases including carbon dioxide.
“Despite our negligible emission, Nepal is suffering from (consequences of climate change) rapid snow-melting, expansion of glacial lake, formation of new glacial lakes, receding snow line, haphazard weather pattern resulting in flash floods, droughts and so on,” said Mansoor.
“Nepal has introduced policies and programmes on climate change in the current three year interim plan to create awareness and to promote private-public partnership in this direction,” the minister said.
He added that Nepal has started initiatives such as evaluating national capability, formulating national policy on climate change, and determining process to approve Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
“Our activities are targeted at development of a low carbon economy,” he said.
This year the world is observing the Environment Day with the slogan “Kick the Habit: Towards A Low Carbon Economy.”
Meanwhile, Save the Environment Foundation (SEF), a Nepalese NGO
completely run by women under the leadership of its executive chairman
Chanda Rana,, is trying to contribute to reducing the use of carbon
dioxide, which is a major component causing global warming.
SEF is launching a campaign to encourage people to use the energy saving
bulbs. "As this year's slogan of World Environment Day is the need to
reduce the carbon dioxide emission, we have planned to generate awareness
on the use of energy saving light bulbs," said Chanda Rana. "This will
contribute to reduce the emission"
"By using one energy saving light bulb, we can save 26 kilogram of CO2 a
year," said Rana. "As the world is heating up, there needs to be a
collective effort from round the world to reduce the CO2," said Rana.
SEF has also launched a program against the invasion of killer weed
Mikania Mikrantha, a plant that kills others in Chitwan National Park,
buffer zones area and entire Chitwan district. SEF also carried out
campaign against Air Pollution, industrial pollution, wetland preservation
(Bishhazari Tal) Garbage Pollution and many others. nepalnews.com sd Jun 05 08
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