The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an internationalenvironmental treaty adopted on 9 May 1992 and opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992. It then entered into force on 21 March 1994, after a sufficient number of countries had ratified it. The UNFCCC objective is to “stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”.
And in case of Nepal, The Government of Nepal established the Climate Change Management Division in the Ministry of Environment (MoE) in the first quarter of 2010. The MoE prepared the National Adaptation Programme of Action, which was endorsed by the Government on 28 September 2010. Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPAs) are being prepared to implement adaptation programmes (Climate Change Policy, 2011).
