• Wednesday, 8 January 2025

Socialist International's meet held, Spanish PM Sanchez urged to visit Himalaya

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Dr Ramesh Acharya (right) shakes hand with Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Shenchez during the Socialist International Council meeting in Morocco. Photo courtesy: Dr Ramesh Acharya.

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Jan 6: An international research expert in Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China, Dr Ramesh Acharya, met with Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez and urged him to scale Mt. Everest.

Talking to the TRN Online, Dr. Acharya, a Nepali diaspora working in China, said he requested the Spanish PM for visiting the Himalaya and summiting the highest peak in the world, Mt. Everest, in his meeting with the Spanish PM Sanchez during recently held Socialist international council meeting at Rawat in Morocco.

It is understood that Spanish PM Sanchez was urged to see the impact of climate change on the Himalaya by visiting the places himself.


Dr Acharya also held talks with Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris, France, and urged her for cooperation in waste management model Paris has adopted with Kathmandu metropolis.

In his address to the meeting, Dr Acharya urged the international community to compensate Nepal for it has been a victim of climate change and carbon emission.

"Nepal is not just a carbon neutral country, but a carbon negative country offering a net carbon sink through our lush green forests. Advanced, developed countries along with other emitters should pay 2 billion USD for reduction of carbon emissions as compensation to Nepal," read Dr Acharya's statement delivered in the meeting held in Morocco in the third week of December.

He highlighted that climate change has adversely impacted Nepal in sectors like forest, water resources, agriculture, human health and biodiversity, as seen in altering the frequency or intensity of extreme weather events and spread of certain pests and diseases, occurrence of heavy floods, landslides and soil erosion, drying of water sources, erosion, and landslides in hills and mountain regions of Nepal while flooding of cultivated lands in low-lying areas of hills and Terai.

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