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Navin Khadka
Navin Singh Khadka is a journalist with the BBC Nepali service and also writes for other portals including the BBC Science and Nature online. Apart from producing and presenting programs, he reports and conducts interviews. He has been a journalist for almost one-and-a-half decades and has worked with daily newspapers, magazines, radios, TVs and online over the years. He has a sustained interest in environment, with a focus on climate change vis-a-vis the Himalayan ecology as he comes from Nepal that showcases world’s eight highest peaks in the Himalayas.
Posts by Navin Khadka
Money Matters
No commentsThe conference halls in Poznan echoed through out with complaints from developing nations that they were not getting funds because of what they called red tape from the agencies involved.
That the Poznan summit would not be so much about slowing global warming was already evident when rich countries were marooned by the global meltdown. The shift of focus on poor countries to help them adapt to climate change effects therefore did not come as a surprise at the UNFCCC conference in Poland last December.
It’s A Jungle Out There
No commentsMore than 20 simultaneous main meetings, as many side events, dozens of press releases, and press briefings one after another — all under the same roof, each day. Many journalists at the Poznan summit could not see the forest as they grappled with trees of information.
»Climate of no-confidence
No commentsA disputed global plan aimed at slowing climate change by means of reserved forests has come under attack from indigenous and tribal communities from around the world, including those from Nepal.
Their opposition has fanned the flames, making the scheme one of the thorniest issues at the UN climate change conference in Poznan, Poland.
Mountainous task
No commentsIn a new race to explore the Himalayas, South Asian governments, international organisations and experts have joined hands for a regional study on the impacts of climate change in the headwaters of Asia’s major rivers.
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