{"id":28702,"date":"2026-09-25T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=28702"},"modified":"2026-09-25T14:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:47:44","slug":"glaciers-floods-dont-travel-with-visas-nepal-pm-asks-india-china-to-join-himalayan-warning-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=28702","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Glaciers, floods don\u2019t travel with visas\u2019: Nepal PM asks India, China to join Himalayan warning network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-134487767,imgsize-80462,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/nepals-pm-balendra-shah.jpg\" alt=\"'Glaciers, floods don\u2019t travel with visas\u2019: Nepal PM asks India, China to join Himalayan warning network\" title=\"Nepal's PM Balendra Shah addresses the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters Thursday. (AP)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Nepal's PM Balendra Shah addresses the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters Thursday. (AP)\">Nepal&#8217;s PM Balendra Shah addresses the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters Thursday. (AP)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Nepal PM Balendra Shah called on India and China to join a trilateral Himalayan climate resilience mechanism to share satellite data, jointly monitor dangerous glacial lakes, strengthen early-warning systems and coordinate cross-border disaster response, telling UN General Assembly that climate change \u201cdoes not recognise borders\u201d after the Aug 26 deluge left at least 1,400 dead and more than 6,000 missing.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>In his maiden address to UN General Assembly, Shah, 36, said, \u201cGlaciers and floods do not travel with a visa stamped on passports.\u201d His address on Thursday came during his first foreign trip since taking office on March 27. He thanked India and China for their \u201cprompt and generous assistance\u201d after the disaster.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Shah said warming was destabilising fragile Himalayan ecology by thawing permafrost, weakening mountain slopes and increasing risks from ice-rock avalanches, floods, landslides and other cascading hazards. <!-- -->The Aug 26 disaster, he said, devastated both sides of Nepal-China border before floodwaters continued downstream towards India. Nepal\u2019s rapid assessment put physical recovery needs at around 10% of GDP.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>Proposing a \u201cHimalayan Climate Resilience Mechanism, led by Nepal, India and China\u201d, Shah said the Hindu Kush Himalaya supported nearly two billion people through water, ecosystems, agriculture and livelihoods. \u201cLet the Himalayas be a laboratory for international cooperation, not a border of fragmented information,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Shah said Nepal contributed less than 0.1% of global greenhouse-gas emissions but was bearing a disproportionate cost. \u201cWe did not create this crisis. Yet we are paying a colossal price for it,\u201d he said, arguing that countries contributing least to global warming should not be pushed further into debt to rebuild after climate disasters.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>\u201cWhen a climate-driven disaster destroys the infrastructure of a poor country, the answer cannot simply be another mega loan or a patchwork of small grants,\u201d Shah said, seeking adequate grant-based financing and calling resources available through existing international climate funds inadequate. Criticising cumbersome procedures for accessing climate finance, he said, \u201cWhen the house is burning, we do not ask the family to complete fifty forms.<!-- --> We act.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>Turning to wider global priorities, Shah said: \u201cWe have built a world with a flawless logistics system for war and a broken one for food,\u201d he said, before invoking Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to underline the region\u2019s shared vulnerabilities.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Shah, currently the world\u2019s youngest national leader and head of govt, also referred to attention surrounding his age. \u201cI did not come here to make that the story,\u201d he said, arguing instead for a multilateral system in which smaller and poorer countries had a meaningful voice.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/south-asia\/glaciers-floods-dont-travel-with-visas-nepal-pm-asks-india-china-to-join-himalayan-warning-network\/articleshow\/134487722.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal&#8217;s PM Balendra Shah addresses the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters Thursday. 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