Unripe Fruits or Non-Raining Clouds? Climate Change Governance and the Funding Dilemma in Nepal

Abstract

Climate change (CC) is one of the major environmental problems challenging society and the ecological system (Huq and Reid, 2004). The negative consequences of industrialisation and environmental degradation have increased the amount of greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and other associated problems. Global warming has led to the unanticipated variability and changes in the weather and climatic cycles, leading to accelerated changes and impacts. These climatic variations are threatening food security, ecosystem integrity and social harmony (Ayers, Alam and Huq, 2010), and the impact is hitting hardest the populations in low-income and developing countries.