Director General of ICIMOD Pema Gyamtsho, team met with SBSTA Chair Harry Vreuls on the margins of the International Experts Dialogue on Mountains, People and Climate Change

In Kathmandu this afternoon Director General of ICIMOD Pema Gyamtsho and his team met with SBSTA Chair Harry Vreuls on the margins of the International Experts Dialogue on Mountains, People and Climate Change.

The dialogue was timed to take place on the eve of the annual meeting in Bonn of the Climate Change Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (#SBSTA), at which for the first time there will be mandated dialogue on mountains following the initiative of mountain countries including Bhutan, Nepal, Kyrgyz Republic and Andorra during last year’s COP in Dubai.

The discussion with Vreuls focussed on the way ahead for mountains at the SBSTA and in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations, including yoking the issues of mountain, cryosphere and sea level rise.