Kathmandu-Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has stressed the need of collective efforts from the entire institutional and individual level from home and abroad to face climate change challenges.

In his address to a program organized here today by the Ministry of Forests and Environment to review the 29th COP, the Prime Minister called for keeping the nature clean with its sustainable

protection through collaborative efforts. As he vowed, the government will take a lead with the management of climate finance to cope with climate crisis.

Expressing his concern over increasing land dryness and its negative consequences, he insisted on the need of community awareness and efforts to prevent pollution caused by human activities.

"We have not contributed to the global warming, but we are bearing the brunt of its impacts," the Prime Minister said. The climate change issues in mountains are not just the concerns of mountainous

countries. The world temperature system is connected with the ecosystem of mountains, and degradation of the mountain's role in keeping atmosphere cool is a climate change challenge, according to

the Prime Minister. "Our efforts should be for protecting the mountains to seas," he stressed.

The UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29) was held in Baku of Azerbaijan on November 11-22. The review focused on Nepal's participation in the event, assessing efforts it is supposed to take ahead in the area of climate change. .

Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Devendra Dahal, Foreign Minister Dr Arzu Rana Deuba, Minister for Forests and Environment, Ain Bahadur Shahi, Federal parliaments, UN resident representatives, policy makers and local level people's representatives were present on the occasion.