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Atmospheric Changes Affects Economy: Experts

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Atmospheric researchers from around the globe have opined that changes in the Asian summer monsoon have implications on the weather, people’s health, agriculture, and glaciers of the entire Hindu Kush Himalayan region. The researched discussed the connection between air pollution and Asian summer monsoon directly affecting to the economy of Nepal during a four day workshop from June 9 to 12 in Kathmandu.

Dr Rabindra Shakya, Vice-Chair of the Nepal National Planning Commission said that proper knowledge of monsoon can help increasing economy of the country through agriculture as 85 per cent of people are still dependant on agriculture in Nepal.

With around 100 participants, the workshop was jointly hosted by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) through its Atmosphere Initiative together with the US National Science Foundation, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme’s Integrated Land, Ecosystem, Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS), the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC), and the World Climate Research Program’s core project on Stratosphere Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC).

 

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