Glaciers retreat cost for Nepal’s mountain to lowland

A recent edition of the 2025 United Nations World Water Development Report published last month on the day of first-ever World Day for Glaciers highlights that globally rising temperature has been fueling glacier melt faster than ever around the world. Since the mountains and glaciers are called water towers; they provide fresh water for billions of people, regulate river systems and sea levels, and play a vital role in Earth’s ecosystem. However, glacier melt increment creates many small glacial lakes and ice dams, huge volumes of water, and debris which causes bursts, avalanches, flash floods and sweep downstream, especially in geographically fragile mountain regions–like the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, the UN water report states.

Meanwhile, Nepal is going to kick off its first edition of ‘Sagarmatha Sambad’ as the flagship dialogue on the theme of ‘Climate Change, Mountains and the Future Humanity’ next month saying to draw attention among international and regional fraternity for mutual climate justice. This three-day multi-stakeholders and cross-sectional discussion forum has also been tentatively scheduled for glacier preservation talk. How much of an impact it will create depends on the future.