Nepal Proposes Himalayan Climate Resilience Mechanism to Unite India and China

Nepal's Prime Minister Balendra Shah called for a Himalayan Climate Resilience Mechanism at the UN General Assembly to enable cross-border disaster response and scientific data sharing among Nepal, India, and China to tackle growing climate threats in the Himalayas. This proposal is in its early stages, and neither India nor China has formally responded. The region faces accelerated glacier retreat and permafrost thaw, increasing risks of landslides and glacial lake outburst floods, despite long-standing territorial disputes between India and China along a 3,500km disputed frontier.