Karnali

Bagmati

Sudurpashchim

Gandaki

Koshi

Lumbini

Madhesh

Nepal

Nepal is experiencing accelerated glacial retreat due to climate change, intensifying the risk of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs), which threaten the safety, livelihoods, and critical infrastructure of downstream communities. With limited technical expertise, constrained financial resources, and a growing public debt burden, Nepal lacks the capacity for proactive and large-scale GLOF risk reduction.

The project aims to protect communities, infrastructure, and ecosystems from increasing GLOF risks caused by human-induced climate change and to reduce human and economic losses.  It will use an integrated approach combining physical lake lowering, downstream ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction measures, and early warning systems.

Key activities include enhancing the technical and institutional capacity of relevant government departments and agencies to develop and integrate climate risk and hazard information into planning and development; improving hazard monitoring and the generation of early warnings, including the dissemination of early warnings to local communities and key economic sectors; and decreasing the probability of GLOF events and flash floods, through disaster risk reduction measures implemented in priority glacial lake watersheds.

Local CSOs and CBOs in landscapes-seascapes around the world access grant financing and technical assistance, including capacity development and knowledge sharing to maintain and enhance their socio-ecological resilience, well-being and socio-economic conditions for global environmental benefits.

South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Electricity Transmission and Distribution Strengthening Project implemented by Asian Development Bank (ADB)

With increases in greenhouse gases (GHG) and air pollution from rapidly growing urban transport systems, countries are driven to adopt and promote sustainable urban mobility models to address issues of traffic congestion, air pollution and GHG emissions. This programme aims to promote a shift to convenient and contemporary public transportation systems through non-motorized methods and electric micro-mobility in urban cities. In addition, it integrates climate-proofing measures to help safeguard transport infrastructure and enhance resilience to address extreme weather events like heat waves, floods, and soil erosion that can potentially compromise infrastructure and cause service disruptions for urban transport networks.  

The E-Mobility Program will promote a transformational shift in public transport through the provision of technical assistance and investment in climate-resilient and low-emission mobility systems in Armenia, Georgia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Nepal, and Uzbekistan.  They may include climate-resilient urban transport infrastructure, the deployment of e-bus fleets on a large scale complemented with non-motorized transport solutions and measures for modal shifts. In addition, the programme seeks to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions amounting to about 11.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2eq) over a 25-year period. Overall, the programme is expected to benefit about 3.7 million people directly and indirectly.

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