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It was a warning to the world" }, { "start": 91.727, "end": 92.971, "text": "and I ask you today," }, { "start": 92.971, "end": 94.59, "text": "have you really heard that" }, { "start": 94.59, "end": 97.605, "text": "warning? Nearly three years ago standing in the" }, { "start": 97.605, "end": 99.401, "text": "shadow of our Mount Everest," }, { "start": 99.401, "end": 100.75, "text": "the Secretary-General" }, { "start": 100.75, "end": 105.71, "text": "of United Nations, warned humanity about the madness and impending climate disaster." }, { "start": 110.87, "end": 112.428, "text": "We in Nepal heard it," }, { "start": 112.428, "end": 114.283, "text": "our communities heard it," }, { "start": 114.283, "end": 117.03, "text": "scientists around the world heard it," }, { "start": 117.03, "end": 119.43, "text": "they repeated it with evidence." }, { "start": 119.43, "end": 124.39, "text": "But we, the political leaders, have been negligent to translate those warning into" }, { "start": 124.39, "end": 129.31, "text": "action at the speed and scale that the vulnerable people require." }, { "start": 129.31, "end": 132.39, "text": "Last month we saw the tragic consequences." }, { "start": 132.39, "end": 134.94, "text": "A warming climate that is destabilizing the" }, { "start": 134.94, "end": 137.55, "text": "phasal Himalayan ecology, melting permafrost" }, { "start": 138.33, "end": 141.85, "text": "that are fracturing mountains, slopes, beneath the glaciers," }, { "start": 141.85, "end": 145.41, "text": "and actually treating the risk of ice-rock avalanche." }, { "start": 145.41, "end": 148.97, "text": "Floods, landslides, and other cascading hazards." }, { "start": 148.97, "end": 154.33, "text": "The resulting devastation unleashed havoc" }, { "start": 154.33, "end": 156.45, "text": "on both sides of Nepal's Sainaboda." }, { "start": 156.45, "end": 159.25, "text": "The flood continued downstream to India." }, { "start": 159.25, "end": 162.37, "text": "This tells us something fundamental." }, { "start": 162.37, "end": 164.53, "text": "Climate change does not recognize borders." }, { "start": 164.66, "end": 169.34, "text": "glaciers and floods do not travel with stamps and passports." }, { "start": 169.34, "end": 173.54, "text": "Excellencies, I'm not here to complain but to share some suggestions." }, { "start": 173.54, "end": 175.726, "text": "First, I wish to express Nepal's deep" }, { "start": 175.726, "end": 178.74, "text": "gratitude to all those who came to our aid after the" }, { "start": 178.74, "end": 180.66, "text": "matter of the deluge." }, { "start": 180.66, "end": 185.54, "text": "Our immediate neighbors, India and China, offered prompt and generous assistance." }, { "start": 185.54, "end": 186.892, "text": "Other friendly countries," }, { "start": 186.892, "end": 188.298, "text": "the United Nations system," }, { "start": 188.298, "end": 190.3, "text": "humanitarian agencies, philanthropies" }, { "start": 193.01, "end": 197.01, "text": "To all of them, I say thank you on behalf of grateful people of Nepal." }, { "start": 205.01, "end": 209.01, "text": "Nepal now faces a massive task of recovery and reconstruction." }, { "start": 209.01, "end": 212.428, "text": "After at least 1400 deaths and over 66,000" }, { "start": 212.428, "end": 216.01, "text": "people still missing a rapid assessment peg," }, { "start": 216.01, "end": 220.01, "text": "physical recovery needs at about 10% of GDP." }, { "start": 220.69, "end": 223.459, "text": "As in rebuilding after post disaster like" }, { "start": 223.459, "end": 224.945, "text": "2015 Gorka earthquake," }, { "start": 224.945, "end": 226.77, "text": "we count on your solidarity" }, { "start": 226.77, "end": 227.77, "text": "and support." }, { "start": 227.77, "end": 233.37, "text": "But we must also understand why this disaster matters beyond Nepal." }, { "start": 233.37, "end": 238.37, "text": "Nepal contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions." }, { "start": 238.37, "end": 240.61, "text": "We did not create these prices." }, { "start": 240.61, "end": 245.65, "text": "Yet we are paying for a colossal price for it." }, { "start": 247.2, "end": 250.08, "text": "Our mountain slopes are becoming unstable." }, { "start": 250.08, "end": 252.52, "text": "Our rivers are becoming less predictable." }, { "start": 252.52, "end": 256.64, "text": "And every major disaster threatens to erase years of development." }, { "start": 256.64, "end": 261.04, "text": "For Nepal, climate catastrophe is not just a humanitarian event," }, { "start": 261.04, "end": 263.2, "text": "but a development emergency." }, { "start": 263.2, "end": 266.44, "text": "It destroys roads, bridges, schools, homes, farms," }, { "start": 266.44, "end": 267.88, "text": "and livelihoods." }, { "start": 267.88, "end": 270.64, "text": "It destroys clean energy infrastructure" }, { "start": 270.64, "end": 272.96, "text": "that we need to fuel our future." }, { "start": 275.53, "end": 280.01, "text": "country to borrow money to repair damage it did not cause." }, { "start": 280.01, "end": 283.81, "text": "But we are not here to blame any country or continent." }, { "start": 283.81, "end": 286.57, "text": "We are here." }, { "start": 286.57, "end": 291.49, "text": "We are not here to turn climate change into another geopolitical battlefield." }, { "start": 291.49, "end": 297.21, "text": "We are here to ask everyone to recommit to share responsibility and solidarity." }, { "start": 297.21, "end": 299.025, "text": "Through the United Nations Framework" }, { "start": 299.025, "end": 300.487, "text": "Convention on Climate Change," }, { "start": 300.487, "end": 301.85, "text": "the international community" }, { "start": 303.02, "end": 306.241, "text": "to the principle of common differentiated" }, { "start": 306.241, "end": 309.62, "text": "responsibility and respective capabilities." }, { "start": 309.62, "end": 311.516, "text": "Those who have historically contributed more" }, { "start": 311.516, "end": 313.5, "text": "to the problem and those with greater capacity" }, { "start": 313.5, "end": 317.06, "text": "to respond must do more." }, { "start": 317.06, "end": 322.2, "text": "Climate justice cannot remain a beautiful phrase in the United Nations' document." }, { "start": 322.2, "end": 323.868, "text": "People of our country be allowed to build" }, { "start": 323.868, "end": 325.66, "text": "their future instead of constantly rebuilding" }, { "start": 325.66, "end": 326.66, "text": "their past." }, { "start": 331.29, "end": 333.678, "text": "These mountains provide water, ecosystem," }, { "start": 333.678, "end": 337.29, "text": "agriculture, and livelihood to the population far beyond Nepal." }, { "start": 338.29, "end": 340.737, "text": "The Himalayas are not peripheral to the planet," }, { "start": 340.737, "end": 343.29, "text": "they are part of the planet's life support system." }, { "start": 344.29, "end": 346.345, "text": "That is why, as an urgent first step," }, { "start": 346.345, "end": 349.122, "text": "we propose that we establish the Himalayas climate" }, { "start": 349.122, "end": 350.29, "text": "resilience mechanism," }, { "start": 351.29, "end": 353.29, "text": "led by Nepal, India and China." }, { "start": 354.29, "end": 354.91, "text": "Through this mechanism," }, { "start": 354.91, "end": 360.35, "text": "[APPLAUSE]" }, { "start": 360.35, "end": 363.11, "text": "Through this mechanism, let us share satellite data" }, { "start": 363.11, "end": 364.31, "text": "and expertise." }, { "start": 364.31, "end": 366.99, "text": "Let us monitor dangerous glacial lakes." }, { "start": 366.99, "end": 369.51, "text": "Let us strengthen joint early warning systems." }, { "start": 369.51, "end": 372.67, "text": "And when disaster strikes, let us coordinate assistance" }, { "start": 372.67, "end": 374.43, "text": "across borders." }, { "start": 374.43, "end": 376.07, "text": "Let the Himalayas become laboratory" }, { "start": 376.07, "end": 378.91, "text": "of international cooperation rather than frontier" }, { "start": 378.91, "end": 380.19, "text": "of fragmented information." }, { "start": 380.79, "end": 384.59, "text": "Remarkable for at least developed country," }, { "start": 384.59, "end": 386.71, "text": "Nepal is already paying a global role" }, { "start": 386.71, "end": 388.75, "text": "exceeding its ecological share." }, { "start": 388.75, "end": 392.75, "text": "We have restored forest cover nearly half of our territory." }, { "start": 392.75, "end": 395.11, "text": "We are installing hydropower at a pace enough to power" }, { "start": 395.11, "end": 399.55, "text": "all clean energy needs and displaced dirty sources abroad." }, { "start": 399.55, "end": 401.43, "text": "We are promoting electric mobility" }, { "start": 401.43, "end": 404.79, "text": "with an adoption rate to match parts of Europe." }, { "start": 404.79, "end": 407.47, "text": "We are strengthening climate adaptation at local level." }, { "start": 407.7, "end": 410.48, "text": "and we shall do more to withstand increasing" }, { "start": 410.48, "end": 413.26, "text": "intensity and frequency of climate disaster." }, { "start": 413.26, "end": 416.22, "text": "But Nepal cannot build resilience alone." }, { "start": 416.22, "end": 419.007, "text": "Against a crisis made worse by the failure" }, { "start": 419.007, "end": 420.4, "text": "of global governance," }, { "start": 420.4, "end": 422.06, "text": "this is why this assembly" }, { "start": 422.06, "end": 423.78, "text": "must note six words." }, { "start": 423.78, "end": 427.317, "text": "Relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction," }, { "start": 427.317, "end": 430.582, "text": "and also responsibility, reparation," }, { "start": 430.582, "end": 431.58, "text": "resilience." }, { "start": 434.97, "end": 437.257, "text": "The second three are what we need to ensure" }, { "start": 437.257, "end": 439.97, "text": "that disaster does not become a permanent condition." }, { "start": 439.97, "end": 444.409, "text": "When a climate-driven disaster destroys infrastructure of a poor country," }, { "start": 444.409, "end": 448.97, "text": "the answer cannot simply be another megalone or a patchwork of small grants." }, { "start": 448.97, "end": 451.97, "text": "We need adequate ground-based support." }, { "start": 457.97, "end": 460.55, "text": "We need adequate ground-based support from the world." }, { "start": 460.55, "end": 462.187, "text": "The loss and damage fund," }, { "start": 462.187, "end": 465.526, "text": "the global environment facility and other financing" }, { "start": 465.526, "end": 467.95, "text": "mechanisms remain grossly inadequate." }, { "start": 467.95, "end": 472.213, "text": "Climate finance must not become another bureaucratic maze" }, { "start": 472.213, "end": 477.15, "text": "through which vulnerable countries spend years that they need help." }, { "start": 477.15, "end": 482.05, "text": "When the house is burning, we do not ask the family to complete 50 forms. We act." }, { "start": 482.05, "end": 484.75, "text": "This is what climate justice must mean." }, { "start": 484.75, "end": 487.75, "text": "Excellencies, this brings me to a larger question." }, { "start": 487.79, "end": 490.67, "text": "What kind of international order do you want?" }, { "start": 490.67, "end": 495.47, "text": "The United Nations was born from humanity's experience of horrific world war." }, { "start": 495.47, "end": 501.47, "text": "Its promise was the sovereignty would matter, international law would matter," }, { "start": 501.47, "end": 504.284, "text": "the dignity of every human being would matter," }, { "start": 504.284, "end": 507.771, "text": "and the weak would not simply have to accept whatever the" }, { "start": 507.771, "end": 508.75, "text": "powerful decide." }, { "start": 508.75, "end": 512.27, "text": "Today, that international system is under strain." }, { "start": 512.27, "end": 514.67, "text": "Too often, military and economic power determines" }, { "start": 514.82, "end": 516.82, "text": "whose voice is heard." }, { "start": 516.82, "end": 518.82, "text": "Nepal believes we need much" }, { "start": 518.82, "end": 520.82, "text": "fairer global economic order." }, { "start": 520.82, "end": 522.82, "text": "In 1994, UNDP's" }, { "start": 522.82, "end": 524.82, "text": "Human Development Report" }, { "start": 524.82, "end": 526.82, "text": "conceptualized the notion of human insecurity." }, { "start": 526.82, "end": 528.82, "text": "It equated security" }, { "start": 528.82, "end": 530.82, "text": "with people rather than territories" }, { "start": 530.82, "end": 532.82, "text": "and with development rather than arms." }, { "start": 532.82, "end": 534.82, "text": "It called for the peace" }, { "start": 534.82, "end": 536.82, "text": "dividend to secure freedoms from fear" }, { "start": 536.82, "end": 538.82, "text": "and want." }, { "start": 538.82, "end": 540.82, "text": "The new majority government in Nepal" }, { "start": 540.82, "end": 541.89, "text": "elected through" }, { "start": 542.03, "end": 545.636, "text": "The fairest and most peaceful elections in our history," }, { "start": 545.636, "end": 550.03, "text": "this March, has had to weather many international adversities since." }, { "start": 550.03, "end": 553.172, "text": "When a poor farmer in Nepal went to show her" }, { "start": 553.172, "end": 557.03, "text": "seeds in monsoon, fertilizers didn't reach her on time." }, { "start": 557.03, "end": 560.03, "text": "When we wanted to pay for new highway, there was no bitumen." }, { "start": 560.03, "end": 565.03, "text": "When a family sat down for an evening meal, there was shortage of cooking gas." }, { "start": 569.01, "end": 571.25, "text": "to floods arriving without warning." }, { "start": 571.25, "end": 573.61, "text": "On the other hand, a global supply chain" }, { "start": 573.61, "end": 577.57, "text": "punishes poor people for causes beyond reason." }, { "start": 577.57, "end": 580.09, "text": "Intercontinental missiles arrive on time." }, { "start": 580.09, "end": 583.73, "text": "Rifles and omniscience cross-border clear every bottleneck" }, { "start": 583.73, "end": 585.01, "text": "meet each deadline." }, { "start": 585.01, "end": 587.45, "text": "But a peasant in Nepal cannot procure" }, { "start": 587.45, "end": 590.77, "text": "his fertilizer or fuel at market price at a time of need." }, { "start": 591.67, "end": 597.319, "text": "We have built a world with" }, { "start": 597.319, "end": 602.968, "text": "flawless logistics for war" }, { "start": 602.968, "end": 608.182, "text": "and broken logistics for" }, { "start": 608.182, "end": 609.27, "text": "food." }, { "start": 609.27, "end": 611.71, "text": "And this is not Nepal's private misfortune." }, { "start": 611.71, "end": 614.456, "text": "Ask Bangladesh, ask Bhutan, ask India," }, { "start": 614.456, "end": 616.696, "text": "ask the Maldives, ask Pakistan," }, { "start": 616.696, "end": 617.71, "text": "ask Sri Lanka." }, { "start": 618.03, "end": 622.37, "text": "Ask any other country in our region and you will hear the same account." }, { "start": 622.37, "end": 627.17, "text": "Hit by the climate we did not warm, and again hit by the wars we did not start." }, { "start": 627.17, "end": 631.17, "text": "(Applause)" }, { "start": 631.17, "end": 634.198, "text": "This tells us there is a lot more broken" }, { "start": 634.198, "end": 636.62, "text": "than meets the eye in the global" }, { "start": 636.62, "end": 637.53, "text": "cooperation." }, { "start": 637.53, "end": 640.123, "text": "Excellencies, I am told I am the youngest head" }, { "start": 640.123, "end": 642.83, "text": "of government to address this assembly this year." }, { "start": 642.99, "end": 648.99, "text": "[APPLAUSE]" }, { "start": 648.99, "end": 652.15, "text": "I did not come here to make that a story." }, { "start": 652.15, "end": 656.39, "text": "I came to make sure whatever else is said from this podium," }, { "start": 656.39, "end": 657.55, "text": "one thing is said plainly." }, { "start": 657.55, "end": 660.99, "text": "A country that is willing to pay should be able to buy." }, { "start": 660.99, "end": 665.99, "text": "And a world that can deliver a weapon anywhere in 72 hours" }, { "start": 665.99, "end": 668.83, "text": "has no excuse for leaving a farmer without means" }, { "start": 668.83, "end": 669.83, "text": "of decent livelihood." }, { "start": 671.01, "end": 675.01, "text": "(applause)" }, { "start": 675.01, "end": 678.01, "text": "This is why we believe in multilateralism." }, { "start": 678.01, "end": 680.01, "text": "This is why we need United Nations," }, { "start": 680.01, "end": 683.01, "text": "in which presence of small poor country is felt," }, { "start": 683.01, "end": 685.01, "text": "and we can work together towards outcomes." }, { "start": 685.01, "end": 688.01, "text": "Climate justice is therefore not only about money." }, { "start": 688.01, "end": 691.01, "text": "It is about distributive justice who bears the cost." }, { "start": 691.01, "end": 694.01, "text": "It is about procedural justice who has a voice." }, { "start": 694.01, "end": 698.01, "text": "It is about whether the future of mountain communities" }, { "start": 698.61, "end": 700.019, "text": "Small island states," }, { "start": 700.019, "end": 702.909, "text": "landlocked and least developed countries," }, { "start": 702.909, "end": 705.73, "text": "and generation yet unborn count equally." }, { "start": 705.73, "end": 707.537, "text": "Starting tomorrow at the Sagarmatha to" }, { "start": 707.537, "end": 710.01, "text": "seaside event right here at the United Nations, Nepal" }, { "start": 710.01, "end": 712.61, "text": "is ready to help lead this conversation." }, { "start": 712.61, "end": 714.377, "text": "Mr. President and Excellencies," }, { "start": 714.377, "end": 716.543, "text": "we are at this General Assembly at the" }, { "start": 716.543, "end": 717.57, "text": "moment of profound" }, { "start": 717.57, "end": 719.81, "text": "global uncertainty." }, { "start": 719.81, "end": 722.41, "text": "And with a renewed democratic mandate that" }, { "start": 722.41, "end": 725.01, "text": "reflects the aspiration of new generation," }, { "start": 726.21, "end": 730.29, "text": "demanded the politics of integrity and accountability." }, { "start": 730.29, "end": 733.65, "text": "The generational shift is not only a national story." }, { "start": 733.65, "end": 737.29, "text": "It is part of global awakening against conflict, inequities," }, { "start": 737.29, "end": 739.45, "text": "and lack of opportunities." }, { "start": 739.45, "end": 741.05, "text": "The commitment of my government is" }, { "start": 741.05, "end": 744.81, "text": "clear to build a state that delivers decent jobs," }, { "start": 744.81, "end": 747.89, "text": "social protection, and a fair chance to every Nepali" }, { "start": 747.89, "end": 750.09, "text": "to thrive at home." }, { "start": 750.09, "end": 752.25, "text": "The Nepal floods signal of future shapes" }, { "start": 752.36, "end": 756.44, "text": "(applause)" }, { "start": 756.44, "end": 760.64, "text": "The Nepal flood signals a future set by rising climate extremes." }, { "start": 760.64, "end": 763.8, "text": "Our baselines are no longer relevant." }, { "start": 763.8, "end": 765.64, "text": "And we must move from ad hoc responses" }, { "start": 765.64, "end": 767.56, "text": "to a culture of preparedness." }, { "start": 767.56, "end": 770.84, "text": "Let us finance resilience and invest in insurance" }, { "start": 770.84, "end": 772.14, "text": "and innovation." }, { "start": 772.14, "end": 775.8, "text": "Let us build stronger infrastructure and institutions." }, { "start": 775.8, "end": 777.8, "text": "Let us reduce fossil fuel dependence." }, { "start": 777.8, "end": 780.34, "text": "Let us build systems that warn, alert," }, { "start": 780.34, "end": 783.21, "text": "and save lives. Let us reform the order that" }, { "start": 783.21, "end": 786.08, "text": "lives the weakest with least power. And when" }, { "start": 786.08, "end": 788.361, "text": "the next warning comes from the rooftop of" }, { "start": 788.361, "end": 790.86, "text": "the world, let us be ready to hear it and ready" }, { "start": 790.86, "end": 791.86, "text": "to act." } ], "transcript_note": "Automatic speech recognition of the video's own audio; may contain mistakes.", "license_note": "Cite the DigiNepal URL and the credited source, if any." }