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Energy Security: Nepal leads the sector
KATHMANDU, AUG 20 -
Nepal has taken the lead to ensure energy security and enhance alternate technologies, one of the four key concerns to be addressed to tackle climate change at the sub-regional level in the Eastern Himalayas.
Other concerns include securing biodiversity and its sustainable use, ensuring food security and securing livelihood and natural freshwater systems of the Himalayas.
A three-day consultative meeting on ‘Sacred Himalayas for Water, Livelihoods and Bio-cultural Heritage’ concluded here Friday, stressing on the need of regional cooperation to mitigate the vulnerability of local populations in the Eastern Himalayan countries, including Nepal, India, Bhutan and Bangladesh.
The meeting, which aimed at assisting the people of the region to adapt to climate change, was attended by representatives from these four countries.
Madhav Karki, deputy director general of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), said as Nepal has already exemplified itself in the sector of renewable energy promotion, the country now needs to ensure energy security.
“This is a good opportunity for the country to work in the sector of energy security which is a key concern related to climate change adaptation,” he said.
Karki said that Alternative Energy Promotion Centre under the Ministry of Environment would take the lead on the study, research and policy-level interventions in the energy sector at the national level, which would be later discussed in the Bhutan Climate Summit 2011.
The meeting also agreed on a road map for adapting to climate change in the Himalayas to be ratified at the Bhutan Summit.
Posted on: 2010-08-21 08:39
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