CoP27 and focus on mitigation

Mitigation of climate change prevents, or at least reduces, the chances of occurrence of climate hazards.

More than a decade ago, in September 2010, Nepal prepared its National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA). A year later, on December 7, 2011, the then Minister of Environment of Nepal Hemraj Tater delivered a statement at the 17th Conference of Parties (CoP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa saying, “We have a very low capacity, technology and financial resources to withstand or adapt to (the effects of climate change). We contribute least to climate change, yet we face the greatest of the burden.”