| Nepal is a small landlocked country in South Asia. The | | | | so rapidly they they could burst their banks within a |
| nation of the Mount Everest and the great Himalayas | | | | decade. Any climate change in Nepal is reflected |
| is now facing several consequences of climate | | | | throughout the region. Nearly 400 million people in |
| change. | | | | northern India and Bangladesh also depend on rainfall |
| "No country on earth has some much natural | | | | and rivers that rise there. |
| diversity and no where apart from the poles is | | | | Street in Gaighat. This was taken during the rainy |
| climate change happening so fast. The glaciers are | | | | season in Nepal. The flooding is not usually too |
| retreating, the monsoon rains are becoming more | | | | severe in Gaighat, but it can ruin fields and destroy |
| intense and farming is getting harder than ever." | | | | crops in the nearby villages. Causes of floods in the |
| Although the share of Nepal in the global emission of | | | | country are often triggered by rapid melting of snow |
| greenhouse gases is negligible, many bitter | | | | and ice in high mountain regions. The increasing |
| consequences having started ruling Nepal. In the | | | | melting of the Glacier Lakes in the Himalaya due to |
| recent years, Nepal is witnessing continuous | | | | exposure to warmer temperature, is main cause of |
| disturbances in its ecology due to climate change | | | | floods in the nation. Due to this, several people are |
| resulting floods, severe landslides, soil erosion and | | | | killed and thousands are rendered homeless in this |
| effects of the climate change. | | | | nation adding to the poverty of this poor nation. |
| Climate Change refers to any change in climate over | | | | Rise of temperature in the capital city of the nation, |
| time, whether due to natural variability or as a result | | | | Kathmandu is also a severe consequences of the |
| of human activity. The changes are attributed directly | | | | global climate change in Nepal. The mean temperature |
| or indirectly to human activity which alters the | | | | during summer and winter season raised by more |
| composition of the global atmosphere and that is in | | | | than 1 and about 2 degree Celsius progressively in |
| addition to natural climate variability. | | | | recent years. This is an severe consequences of the |
| This bridge, at Phunki Tengi in Sagarmatha National | | | | human induced climate change. Similar trends are seen |
| Park, was destroyed in a flood in the summer of | | | | in southern Terai plains. In these regions extreme |
| 2007. Climate change is also responsible for erratic | | | | temperatures including heat wave and cold stream |
| weather patterns such as the thick haze that covers | | | | are witnessed frequently during summer and winter |
| many parts of the southern plains of the country | | | | season respectively. Loss of human lives due to cold |
| during winter seasons which destroys crops and | | | | stream is always reported every year in Nepal. |
| livelihoods. The intensified monsoon is also creating | | | | A group calling themselves Climate Change Refugees |
| hundreds of different environmental refugees. The | | | | gathered on 17th Avenue in Calgary, Alberta on |
| unpredicted rainfall is making farming difficult. | | | | December 8th, 2007 for the International Day of |
| Thousand hectors of agricultural lands have turned | | | | Action on Climate Change The increasing |
| into sand bank. Nepal is on the front line of climate | | | | developments that causes emission of green house |
| change and variations which for some people the | | | | gases in the developed countries is resulting is a |
| changes are catastrophic. | | | | severe environmental problems in many poorer nation |
| The rain is now very different and are increasingly | | | | like Nepal. The shift in weather conditions causes |
| unpredictable.It's more concentrated and intense. It | | | | these nations to face several calamities like flood, |
| means that crop yields are going down. Many | | | | droughts, landslides, soil erosion, shift in farming |
| cultivable land are being progressively washed by big | | | | practices and productivity and many other social |
| and small rives like Narayani river,Koshi river, Tirshuli | | | | consequences. With further increase in global |
| river and others. Observations records that some of | | | | temperature its impacts on human being is increasing |
| the fastest long-term increases in temperatures and | | | | tremendously. So this is time that we realize the |
| rainfall is seen in Nepal. At least 44 of Nepal's and | | | | impacts of the global climate change and start action |
| neighbouring Bhutan's Himalayan lakes, which collect | | | | to counter attack it. |
| glacier meltwater, are said by the UN to be growing | | | | |