Kathmandu Climate Week closes with a sixteen-point Kathmandu Call for Climate Justice

4 October 2026

Nepal's first Kathmandu Climate Week ran for three days and ended with the adoption of a declaration called the Kathmandu Call for Climate Justice. The declaration sets out sixteen commitments and asks both the international community and the Nepali government for immediate and results-oriented action. The theme of the conference was climate justice for climate resilience, from local action to global climate diplomacy, and it was organised by a coalition of Nepali civil society bodies including Creasion and the Nepal Bar Association. Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal opened the meeting by arguing that the Himalayas are a pillar of global ecological security, noting that Nepal produces less than 0.1 per cent of global greenhouse gases while Himalayan rivers support nearly two billion people downstream. He also announced that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has created a Climate Diplomacy Section to connect what happens on the ground to what Nepal argues in negotiations. Nepal used the platform to press for grant-based climate finance and for a loss and damage fund that is not bogged down in paperwork.