{"id":435298,"date":"2026-09-03T12:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=435298"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:10:22","slug":"minister-chaudhary-calls-for-collective-action-for-climate-justice-after-bhotekoshi-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/09\/03\/435298.html","title":{"rendered":"Minister Chaudhary calls for collective action for climate justice after Bhotekoshi disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Environment Gita Chaudhary has called for collective international action to achieve climate justice, citing the devastating Bhotekoshi disaster in Rasuwa as a stark warning of the growing climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing a ministerial meeting of the Least Developed Countries in Dili, Timor-Leste, Minister Chaudhary said the disaster caused unprecedented loss of life and property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said more than 1,206 people have died and over 4,216 remain missing, while around 60,000 people from 15,000 households have been displaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disaster completely damaged 11 hydropower projects with a combined capacity of 749 megawatts, more than 100 bridges, 118 telecommunications towers and around 187 kilometres of national highways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary estimates put the economic losses at between four and five billion US dollars. Non-economic losses could be two to three times higher, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Chaudhary said countries such as Nepal, which contribute very little to global greenhouse gas emissions, are among those suffering the greatest impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She called for the full operation of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage and proposed that the Bhotekoshi disaster be considered for rapid-response support. Nepal has already submitted an official request, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister also urged stronger regional cooperation, including transboundary data sharing, early-warning systems and climate-resilient infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said the Bhotekoshi disaster is a wake-up call and stressed that climate action must focus on implementation, solidarity and climate justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing a ministerial meeting of the Least Developed Countries in Dili, Timor-Leste, Minister Chaudhary said the disaster caused unprecedented loss of life and property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":427960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-435298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435299,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435298\/revisions\/435299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435298"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=435298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}