A Focus on Mountains for Regional Cooperation - Closing speech at the Himalayan Consensus Summit

The HKH is an important energy source, carbon stock and biosphere reserve, all of which are important for our future. The HKH is certainly an asset for Asia and the globe. There is also a realization that in the HKH we are experiencing change in many different dimensions, along different sectors that intersect and diverge – something we refer to as climate + change.