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.