Kathmandu: Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Arzu Rana Deuba has called for collective efforts at the global level to address the growing impact of climate change, a borderless phenomenon threatening human civilisation. Addressing an inaugural session of the Hindu Kush Himalaya Parliamentarians’ Meet 2025 in Kathmandu today, Dr Rana said, “Climate change is a common concern against human civilization. It goes beyond any specific boundary, and geography. So, a solution must be found.”
According to National News Agency Nepal, Dr Rana urged everyone to act and play their crucial roles in addressing the crisis and other challenges like biodiversity loss, and air quality degradation by making laws, mobilising resources, and holding the government accountable. Citing a recent report by the 2025 World Meteorological Organisation that global temperature has reached the 1.5 degrees threshold for the first time, she stressed the need for resolving the problem through rapid decarbonisation efforts, long-term cost reductions, and the achievement of sustainable development goals.
The Foreign Minister noted that the recent judgment of the International Court of Justice has made states legally responsible to protect climate, reduce emissions, combat its serious impacts, and prevent transboundary hazards.
Referring to the recent floods in India, Pakistan, and Nepal, which have claimed many lives, left many more missing, and destroyed infrastructures, she highlighted the Hindu Kush Himalaya’s high vulnerability to climate change consequences.
Dr Rana pointed out that Nepal is a country most vulnerable to earthquakes, melting glaciers, erratic rainfall, loss of biodiversity, floods, and landslides, despite contributing the least to carbon emissions. She demanded climate justice for the country.
She also recalled the first edition of the ‘The Sagarmatha Sambaad’ held in Kathmandu last May, where leaders, thinkers, and policymakers from around the world gathered and issued a 25-point roadmap for mitigating climate change impacts.