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The Hindu Kush Himalaya – Sustaining Nature Empowering People
18 – 19 August 2025
The Soaltee Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal
The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region is increasingly facing severe impacts of climate change, disaster risks, biodiversity loss, and pollution alongside accelerated socio-economic shifts with serious implications to ecosystems, natural resources, livelihoods and human life. Given the significant role of parliamentarians in policymaking, legislation, and shaping public opinion, parliamentarians from the HKH countries can be crucial in advancing the region’s climate action and resilience agenda. However, they need access to essential knowledge and evidence to proactively advance gender equal and social inclusive, pro-planet, pro-mountain, and pro-climate advocacy at the national, regional and global forums. Despite sharing various environmental and socio-economic challenges, the HKH parliamentarians lack a regional platform to discuss their shared challenges and opportunities and identify solutions to address them collectively.
Supported by the United Kingdom International Development (UKID) through its Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) the HKH parliamentarians’ meet 2025 aims to provide an effective platform for members of the parliaments from the HKH countries to come together, access the latest knowledge and information about the HKH region’s issues, challenges and opportunities, share experiences about the best parliamentary practices, and discuss forward-looking policy actions.
Sensitise parliamentarians to HKH's socio-economic and ecological significance and fragility – the urgency of addressing them, the commitments under United Nations Conventions, and other multilateral environmental agreements
Enhance parliamentarians' understanding of the key trends and events related to climate change, biodiversity loss, and air pollution in the HKH region, as well as shared challenges, gaps, needs and opportunities, through sharing knowledge and fostering dialogue
Familiarise parliamentarians with emerging climate, environmental and social challenges, and the impact it has on women, youth, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and their associated regional and transboundary issues and livelihood
Facilitate knowledge sharing by exchanging experiences, ideas, and best practices, and co-identify ways, and means to address common challenges through regional cooperation
Engagement with parliamentarians from the HKH countries will ensure that they are:
