EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON NEPAL

The major effect of it in Nepal is poor crop yield. Nepal; is an agricultural nation where most of the people depends on yielding of crops for their survival. Due to the global warming and the extreme temperature, people out her hae to face water shortages, and poor crop yield.Farmers say that changing climate patter has greatly affected the crop yielding leaving them unable to feed themselves and getting into debt.

Nepal is observing an unpredictable climate pattern. Sometimes there is an intense rainfall while in other times there is drought. There are drier winters and delayed monsoons. These changes have great impact on the melting of the Himalayan glaciers. This effect could be seen beyond Nepal as well.

Not only the environment is affected by the climate change, but also humans are affected and this effect has been more concentrated on the women. Climate change has resulted into drought in most of the places and has forced women to travel farther to fetch water and also they need to take responsibility to feed their family since the male members migrate seasonally in search of jobs.

Nepal is one of the world’s poorest nations, with 31% of its 28 million-population living below the poverty line. It has one of the lowest emissions records in the world – just 0.025% of total global greenhouse gas emissions.