HKH countries agree to protect cryosphere tackle disaster impacts

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#glacialmelting #climatechange #bhutan #nepal #Pakistan #ICIMOD • Watch more in this story... • Credits: • Reporting: Sean Hogan/Climate News Asia International • Reporting Editor: Saleem Shaikh • Producer Director : Sughra Tunio I Climate News Asia International • Story and visual Credits: Stock footage/Reuters/AFP/ICIMOD. • Thumbnail Photo caption and Credit: Screenshot of Karakorman mountains 2022. • Reach us at email: [email protected] • Watch us on • Youtube: • / @climatenewsasia • Twitter: https://twitter.com/climatenewsasia • Linkedin: https://shorturl.at/dpCDU • -------- • Tags • #tag #tags #water #biodiversitymatters #environment #viral #viralvideo #viralshorts #foryou #youtubechannel #youtube #youtuber #youtubers #subscribe #youtubevideos #youtubevideo #live #asiaclimatenews #climatecrisis #lossandamagge #cop28 #cop28uae #funny #funnyvideo #fun #nature #women #southasian #asia #pakistan #asiapacific #environment #news #nature #movie #heatwave #heat #news #newsfeed #water #centralasia #cop29 #cryosphere #water #river #hkh #glacialmelting • Story: • Disaster risk management experts from Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan at a recent high-level regional Policy Action Dialogue under the theme From Cryosphere to Coast discussed at length the adverse impacts of climate change on cryosphere in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya-Karakoram region and possible disaster risk management measures to cope with the impacts the communities, infrastructure and ecosystems. • Addressing the opening session of the three-day event held in Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad from September 11 to 13, They emphasised the need for enhancing intra-regional collaboration among the Hindu-Kush Himalaya-Karakoram regional countries to protect lives and livelihoods of the people and fragile mountain ecosystems from the exacerbating fallouts of climate crisis. • The participating government officials, technical experts and members of civil society organisations from Nepal, Bhutan and Pakistan, however, agreed to further strengthen cross-border cooperation in disaster risk reduction, sharing knowledge and technologies for enhanced disaster resilience and establishing a regional network for non-stop support and collaboration. • Kathmandu-based International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Civil Society Coalition for Climate Change and Pakistan’s Ministry of Climate Change Environmental Coordination jointly organized the three-day crucial event. • Primarily aimed to conduct discussions on sharing expertise and best practices in disaster preparedness and response from counterparts in Pakistan, the three-day intensive event saw experts exploring potential areas of collaboration, including addressing various mountain-specific disasters including the glacial lake outburst floods, sharing critical equipment, and capacity-building in search and rescue. • Addressing the inaugural session of the event as a chief guest, Coordinator to Pakistani Prime Minister, Romina Khurshid Aalam highlighted adversely the Hindu-Kush Himalaya-Karakoram region’s crysphere is bearing the brunt of the global warming. • Soundbite • She hoped that this much-needed event would come up with coping measures and a roadmap to tackle the challenges being faced by the region’s cryosphere and its communities. • Soundbite • Dr. Pema Gyamtsho, Director General of the Kathmndu-based International Center for Integrated Mountain Development spoke on how badly that negative impacts of climate change on the region’s cryosphere are already affecting water flow patterns. • Soundbite • He also suggested policy measures to protect water resources fr om wasting to meet household, agriculture, industrial, water and sanitation needs. • Soundbite • Delivering presentation during the opening session of the regional dialogue, Dr. Arun Bhakta Shrestha, a Senior Climate Change Specialist and Strategic Group Lead for Reducing Climate and Environmental Risks at ICIMOD, said shed light on how rapidly region is heating up, posing grave threats for the glaciers and water flows. • Soundbite • Chairman of Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said that rich countries responsible for the global heating must act to slow down the it. • Soundbite • Neelofur Hafeez, a senior official from Pakistan’s National Food Security and Research ministry, said that highlighted at length the climate change-induced vulnerabilities of the farming community are increasing as a result of rapidly vanishing cryosphere. • Sound • Speakers concluded various policy measures, emphasinging the urgent need to bridge the policy-implementation gap through enhanced collaboration among Hindu-Kush Himalaya-Karakoram regional countries for tackling Climate Change Impacts on Cryosphere, Water, Food Security, and achieving Disaster Risk Reduction goals. • Ends

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