Nepal News

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Extreme heat, storms and food insecurity fuel violence against women as climate change ramps up risk factors.
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Climate change played a key role in the 'catastrophic' 2023 floods in the Himalayan state of Sikkim in India, a new study says.
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Nepal’s highest court has scrapped a controversial new law that allowed infrastructure development, such as hotels and cable cars, inside protected areas.
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Sunil Acharya, Oxfam’s policy and campaigns coordinator for Asia, tells Eco-Business why he thinks the greater use of guarantees to mobilise financing in the private sector is problematic, especially as MDB lending is still at market rates. Globally, the charity is pushing to “decolonise the aid sector” which it says is broken.
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Nepal Opinion

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Governments in the region must fix their opaque regulatory frameworks and make use of innovative financing models, says analyst Shantanu Srivastava.
Peace with Nature Singapore
Founder and managing director Jessica Cheam investigates the relationship between business and our natural world, and shares about the genesis of Eco-Business in this book chapter contribution to 'Peace and Nature', a book compilation of 50 essays and edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Lye Lin Heng and Shawn Lum launched in Singapore recently.
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As countries prepare to meet this month to work on the first global agreement to end plastic pollution, the perspectives of South Asia must be heard loud and clear.
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Nepal Videos

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Undervalued and ignored, wetlands are disappearing and drying up in Nepal—leaving the communities and wildlife that depend on them exposed in a changing climate.
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An innovative cargo bicycle designed for farmers and villagers may help boost incomes in isolated farming communities in Nepal.
Lake Phewa
Working on the lake gives women independence in a country where women are often destined to a life of servitude and denied the access to education, health and jobs.
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Demand for Tibetan prayer beads from China have brought Nepal’s Timal village into the limelight, but the sustainability of this opaque market is leading to concerns.
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