This paper is a summary for policymakers of the National Adaption Plan (NAP) 2021-2050 for Nepal. Climate change threatens to undermine the historical socioeconomic achievements of Nepal. Nepal is one of the most climate change vulnerable countries ans the climate impacts are more profound due to the country's mountainous topography and its abrupt ecological and climatic transitions, combined with a low level of development and a reliance on natural resource-based livelihoods and embedded poverty.
This NAP sets out a framework to integrate adaptation across sectors and levels of government. The plan sets out short-term priority actions to 2025, as well as medium-term priority programs to 2030 and long-term adaptation strategic goals to 2050 that aim to assist Nepal to better integrate actions and strategies to address climate risk and vulnerability in development planning and implementation. The short-term and medium-term actions are designed to help the Government of Nepal achieve the adaptation actions set out in its 2020 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). This Nap also serves as Nepal's instrument of Adaptation Communication, a requirement of the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
