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Antalya (Türkiye), Nov 10: Nepal has urged the international community to step up climate adaptation financing and make funds more accessible to help mountain regions withstand the growing threats of climate change.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Shisir Khanal made the appeal at a high-level event titled 'Strengthening Mountain Resilience through Adaptation Finance', held on the sidelines of the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which began in Antalya, Türkiye, on Monday.
The programme was jointly hosted by a coalition of mountain countries-Nepal, Bhutan and Kyrgyzstan-in partnership with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the JOY Environment Network.
Drawing attention to the devastating August 26's Bhotekoshi flood, Minister Khanal highlighted the economic, physical and human toll of climate-induced disasters in Nepal. 
He stressed that stronger regional and international cooperation was essential to protect vulnerable mountain communities from increasingly severe climate impacts.
Stating that nearly one-third of the world's population depends directly on mountain ecosystems for their livelihoods and well-being, the Minister called for mountain resilience to feature more prominently in the global climate change agenda.
Minister Khanal also pressed for increasing the volume and mobilization of predictable and easily accessible climate finance to support adaptation efforts.
Reaffirming the urgency of global climate action, he urged the international community to maintain the possibility of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The Minister, during his address, also highlighted the importance of collective action to address the climate crisis.