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India inks climate change adaptation deal
Realising that consequences of climate change in Himalayas can no longer be overlooked, India has signed a declaration with Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh for wide-ranging collaboration on energy, water, food and biodiversity issues to address the threat to their ecosystem.
The four nations reached the pact at the two-day “Climate Summit for a Living Himalayas” held at Thimpu in Bhutan. This was against the backdrop of melting glaciers, erratic weather conditions, changing rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures impacting the people and wildlife of the region.
Environment Secretary T Chatterjee represented India at the summit attended by high-level government officials, NGOs, leaders of civil society, and youth ambassadors from the four Eastern Himalayan nations.
According an official statement from World Wildlife Fund (one of the organisations attending the meet), the four nations have broadly agreed to combine powers to increase access to ‘affordable and reliable’ clean energy resources and technology through a regional knowledge sharing mechanism.
“This would include diversification of energy supply, improved regional connectivity for electricity and natural gas, as well as efforts to enhance energy efficiency across the Eastern Himalayas,” said an official release.
