Outlook on climate change adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

Consideration of mountain-relevant hazards in climate change policies

Acknowledgement/identification of the issue

No mention of the issue

Strategies to address the issue

Dominant regulatory authority

Main policy

Mountain-relevant climate hazards

Transboundary consideration Indigenous communities Cross-cutting considerations

Rising temperatures

Floods and flash floods

Heavy snow and cold extremes

Reduced snow cover

Droughts / low river flow

Land slides

Heat waves

Wild fires

Ecosystems degradation

GLOFs

Avalanches Glacial melting

Gender

National Environmental Protection Agency

National Development Strategy 2008-2013

Afghanistan

Ministry of Environment and Forests

Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan 2009

Bangladesh

National Environment Commission

Climate Change Policy of the Kingdom of Bhutan 2018 (Draft 2017)

Bhutan

National Development and Reform Commission

National Climate Change Plan 2014-2020

China

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

National Action Plan on Climate Change 2008

India

Myanmar Climate Change Strategy and

Climate Change Alliance

Myanmar

Action Plan 2016–2030

Ministry of Forests and Environment

National Climate Change Policy 2011

Nepal

National Climate Change Policy 2012

Ministry of Climate Change

Pakistan

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