AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoNepal Climate Justice: Nepal’s Speaker Aryal said the country has “negligible” responsibility for climate change but is hit hardest, pointing to the Rasuwa flash flood that killed over 1,300 and left thousands missing, with wildlife and livelihoods also battered. Disaster Risk: The floods are framed as a warning that warming makes extreme events more chaotic and harder to predict, while reconstruction needs are estimated at billions. Food Security Cooperation: Malaysia is looking to India’s buffer-stock and supply-chain approach as it drafts a National Food Security Act, with talks also covering seed banks and ASEAN-India farm cooperation. Energy & Climate Policy: China moved to curb disorderly low-price competition in key industrial products via clearer cost-accounting rules. Pacific Resilience: Fiji is building a regional meteorology training and calibration centre in Nadi, backed by Japan/JICA, to strengthen impact-based forecasting across the South Pacific. Climate-Smart Farming Deal: Mitti Labs and Google agreed to scale methane-cutting rice practices across 100,000 hectares in India, targeting 3M tons of near-term warming impact. Mining & Value Addition: Ghana urged deeper, “green and intelligent” mining partnerships with China beyond raw exports, pushing for processing, skills and technology transfer. BRICS Diplomacy: Xi Jinping is set to attend the BRICS summit in New Delhi after seven years, with India using the platform amid major geopolitical tensions.
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