Cascading climate risks in Hindu Kush Himalaya

The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region, spanning from Afghanistan to Myanmar, faces severe threats from cascading climate risks that propagate across national borders. The brief asserts that local and national adaptation efforts are insufficient and proposes a regional cooperation mechanism involving state and non-state actors. This mechanism would aim to reduce the costs of climate action, overcome resource constraints, and enhance climate diplomacy through four priority areas: research and knowledge exchange, governance and policy support, diplomacy and coalition building, and implementation and finance.

• Climate change impacts in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) create 'cascading climate risks' that transcend national borders and can affect both neighboring countries and distant global regions.
• Regional cooperation on climate adaptation in the HKH can provide several advantages, including lowering the costs of action, bypassing national resource limitations, increasing the credibility of voluntary targets, and improving climate diplomacy.
• The authors propose a regional cooperation mechanism for the HKH focused on four specific pillars: research, information sharing, and knowledge exchange; cross-scale governance capacity and policy support; climate diplomacy, negotiations, and coalition building; and capacity strengthening, implementation, and finance.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2023). Cascading climate risks in Hindu Kush Himalaya. https://www.sei.org/publications/cascading-climate-risks-in-hindu-kush-himalaya/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Cascading climate risks in Hindu Kush Himalaya. 2023. https://www.sei.org/publications/cascading-climate-risks-in-hindu-kush-himalaya/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2023cascading, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Cascading climate risks in Hindu Kush Himalaya}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2023}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/cascading-climate-risks-in-hindu-kush-himalaya/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }