Renewable Energy: Over 100 participants, including development partners, civil society members, environmental experts, private sector representatives and government officials from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Pakistan attended the conference, according to a press release issued by the ICIMOD.
Harnessing renewable energy has the potential to revolutionize food security in the mountainous Hindu Kush Himalayas region, experts, including from India, highlighted at a conference hosted by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICOMOD). With rising temperatures posing risks to food security, experts emphasized the importance of embracing clean energy sources like hydro, solar, biomass, and wind to transform agricultural productivity.