After the floods and landslides that struck the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river basins in August, Nepal has used talks in New Delhi and Bangkok to press for integrated, cross-border disaster management; experts describe the disaster as a cascading risk that crosses borders. In New Delhi, Nepal's acting ambassador to India, Dr. Surendra Thapa, called for preparedness against glacial hazards and for regional cooperation between Nepal, India and China. At a dialogue held alongside the fifth UNESCAP ministerial conference in Bangkok, Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Birajbhakt Shrestha called the disaster a warning for the whole Asia-Pacific region. Nepal set out three priorities — study of interlinked climate and geological risks, rapid sharing of emergency and hydrological data, and early warning built on satellite technology and artificial intelligence — and its proposal for regional space cooperation has been backed by 53 countries, according to Nagarik News.
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After the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli floods and landslides, Nepal used talks in New Delhi and Bangkok to press for regional cooperation on climate and disaster risk, including shared data and satellite-based early warning.
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