Ending the science-policy gap

There should be a science-based policymaking process in disaster risk reduction.

According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies World Disaster Report 2020, extreme weather and climate-related disasters have killed 410,000 people worldwide in the last 10 years. Today, the rate of disaster events has increased by 35 percent compared to the 1990s, and almost 77 percent of them are climate related. The United Nations Environment Programme has reported that world temperatures will increase by 3 degrees Celsius by the end of this century if greenhouse gas emissions are not slashed by 7.6 percent. By then, the frequency and effects of droughts, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans will rise manifold, and poor countries like Nepal will be affected the most.