१औँ सम्मेलन (कोप–३१)
Antalya (Turkey), November 24.
Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal has emphasized the need to mobilize and expand access to adaptation finance in order to protect mountain regions from the impacts of climate change.
Addressing a high-level program titled “Strengthening Mountain Resilience through Adaptation Finance,” held on the sidelines of the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP-31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Antalya, Turkey, on Monday, he made these remarks.
The event was jointly organized by Nepal, Bhutan, and Kyrgyzstan in collaboration with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Zoe Environment Network.
During his address, Minister Khanal discussed the economic, physical, and human losses caused by the recent destructive “Himalayan tsunami” in Nepal. He stated that regional and global solidarity and cooperation are essential to strengthen the resilience of mountain regions in coping with the escalating impacts of climate change.
Noting that approximately one-third of the global population directly depends on mountain ecosystems, he stressed that the issue of mountain resilience must be prioritized within UN climate change processes.
Highlighting the need to increase the volume and mobilization of predictable and easily accessible climate finance for climate adaptation, he called upon the international community to maintain conditions necessary to achieve the target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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