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Government has decided to hold a historic cabinet meeting dedicated to climate change in the Himalayas at Gorakshep near Mt. Everest (Qomolangma) Base Camp on Dec. 4.

    The meeting, to be presided by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, will be held at the sand ground at Gorakshep at the height of approximately 5,164 meters, where table and chairs will be placed. It is said the meeting will last for 20 minutes and the Everest Base Camp is two hours trek from Gorakshep.

    At the meeting, the cabinet will announce 1900 sq km Api-Nampa Conservation Area, located in Darchula and Gaurishankar Conservation Area.

    The cabinet will also endorse the prime minister’s Nepal position paper, which will be read by the prime minister at the upcoming United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark.

    Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Deepak Bohara, who had proposed the concept to the prime minister a month ago, said no state fund will be used for the meeting. “We will not even use a penny from the state coffers,” Bohara told reporters.

    Sources of the ministry said that some 25 donors have supported the event and some foreign diplomats have shown interest in attending the meeting.

    ”We are keen to invite the ambassadors. They too have shown interest in joining the meeting,” a ministry source told Sunday’s myrepublica.com, adding, “Their presence will send a strong message of their moral support to Nepal’s concern over climate change issues.”

    According to the meeting plan, two MI-17 choppers and three small rescue helicopters will be used for the event, which will be telecast live by the state-run Nepal Television.

    According to an earlier report, Nepal is preparing a status-paper on climate change for the first time.

    The new status-paper stated that major polluting countries should be obliged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 45 and 85 percent respectively by 2020 and 2050, and that the global temperature rise should not go beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius on an average.

    The paper also focuses on five thematic fields-mitigation, adaptation, technology development and transfer, financing, and capacity development.

    Although Nepal’s emissions are negligible, it ranks among the top 14 countries most vulnerable to climate change.

government has decided to hold a historic cabinet meeting dedicated to climate change in the Himalayas at Gorakshep near Mt. Everest (Qomolangma) Base Camp on Dec. 4.

    The meeting, to be presided by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, will be held at the sand ground at Gorakshep at the height of approximately 5,164 meters, where table and chairs will be placed. It is said the meeting will last for 20 minutes and the Everest Base Camp is two hours trek from Gorakshep.

    At the meeting, the cabinet will announce 1900 sq km Api-Nampa Conservation Area, located in Darchula and Gaurishankar Conservation Area.

    The cabinet will also endorse the prime minister’s Nepal position paper, which will be read by the prime minister at the upcoming United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark.

    Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Deepak Bohara, who had proposed the concept to the prime minister a month ago, said no state fund will be used for the meeting. “We will not even use a penny from the state coffers,” Bohara told reporters.

    Sources of the ministry said that some 25 donors have supported the event and some foreign diplomats have shown interest in attending the meeting.

    ”We are keen to invite the ambassadors. They too have shown interest in joining the meeting,” a ministry source told Sunday’s myrepublica.com, adding, “Their presence will send a strong message of their moral support to Nepal’s concern over climate change issues.”

    According to the meeting plan, two MI-17 choppers and three small rescue helicopters will be used for the event, which will be telecast live by the state-run Nepal Television.

    According to an earlier report, Nepal is preparing a status-paper on climate change for the first time.

    The new status-paper stated that major polluting countries should be obliged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 45 and 85 percent respectively by 2020 and 2050, and that the global temperature rise should not go beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius on an average.

    The paper also focuses on five thematic fields-mitigation, adaptation, technology development and transfer, financing, and capacity development.

    Although Nepal’s emissions are negligible, it ranks among the top 14 countries most vulnerable to climate change.