Voices from Nepal: Promoting Women's Climate Leadership

Aug 3, 2014
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The magnitude of the problem of climate change and environmental degradation in a mountainous and developing country like Nepal is very alarming.

Rapid population growth and its consequent effect on over-exploitation of the depleting resources, migration, soil erosion, poor infrastructure, and ecological degradation is taking place everywhere in Nepal.

Low economic strength, inadequate infrastructure, low level of social development and education, lack of institutional capacity, and higher dependency on the natural resource base makes the country vulnerable to change.