This national framework on L&D is of relevance to both understand as well as contextualize L&D in the Nepali context. It provides further understanding of the relevant approaches, methodology, and tools to assess the unavoidable, avoidable, and avoided risks of climate change impacts. Besides, this framework will provide Nepal a unique opportunity to devise country-driven, participatory, and inclusive approaches to tackle climate change risk and vulnerability.
In Nepal, climate-induced disasters cause around 65 per cent of all disaster-related annual deaths. The average annual economic loss from climate-induced disasters is about 0.08 per cent of the GDP (2018/19 figures at the current price). In extreme years, like 2017 when Tarai floods occurred, the economic loss and damage from the single disaster event was around 2.08 per cent of the GDP (2017/18 figures at the current price). Multiple studies have predicted an increase in L&D caused by climate-induced disasters in the future.
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