NATURAL DISASTER AND IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Nepal has achieved development progress in recent decades however, these gains are at risk due to climate change. Nepal is highly vulnerable to climate and disaster risks. Rising temperatures, melting glaciers, and more intense rainfall are expected to increase climate-related hazards, particularly river flooding and landslides. Women, indigenous people, and other marginalized groups are often excluded from mainstream development and suffer from cumulative and cascading impacts of climate change and disasters.

Helambu and the area around it is ranked as one of the topmost disaster-prone areas within Nepal. District wise rank of baseline context of landslide hazard, based on historical climate show that Sindhupalchowk is in the top risk category, this was even before the area experienced massive flooding in 2021.

“Climate emergency threatens to push 130 million people into extreme poverty by 2030, yet people living in poverty rarely have the power or money to build resilience to these crises. Local people are left out of decisions”.