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Balendra Shah urges UN action on Himalayan climate crisis

Prime Minister proposes regional mechanism with India and China after flood disaster leaves at least 1,400 dead.

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  1. 0:01Prime Minister Balendra Shah addressed the
  2. 0:03eighty-first United Nations General Assembly
  3. 0:07He stated the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli flood tragedy
  4. 0:10serves as a direct warning to
  5. 0:11the world
  6. 0:13Nepal produces less than zero point
  7. 0:16one percent of global emissions despite
  8. 0:18acute climate risks
  9. 0:20The recent disaster resulted in at
  10. 0:22least fourteen hundred confirmed deaths with
  11. 0:25over six thousand missing
  12. 0:28Shah proposed a Himalayan Climate Resilience
  13. 0:30Mechanism led by Nepal India
  14. 0:32and China
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