Dhaka, Nov 20 —Environment ministers of Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and India have called for adopting a regional framework of cooperation to tackle disasters induced by climate change.
The ministers, who met at Bhutan's capital Thimphu on Saturday, also stressed the need to raise funds for tackling the problem, the Himalayan Times has said in a report.
The framework has also focused on biodiversity conservation, development of alternative energy, sharing of technology, research into hiking food production and adoption of ecosystem management practices to tackle disasters tied to global warming.
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"Resources and expertise for implementation of the 'framework of cooperation' should be preferably found within the sub-region," according to the cooperation agreement.
"The achievement was not less than heads of state level because of the commitment to implement the declaration. Heads of state have informed they haven't underestimated the summit," the daily quoted summit secretariat director Nawang Norbu as saying.
The summit was held at South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) convention center in Langjophakha of Thimphu.
The summit took place days after an international conference on climate change in Dhaka in the run up to a UN-sponsored climate change conference starting Nov 28 in Durban, South Africa.
In Dhaka, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world's big emitters of carbon gases to prepare their minds for financing a pledged green fund of $100 billion to help the most vulnerable nations tackle the impacts of the climate change.
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