Kathmandu, May 16 -- The first edition of multi-stakeholder dialogue forum Sagarmatha Sambaad began in Nepal on Friday. The country's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli inaugurated the three-day event in which he stressed on saving the mountains, which he noted was synonymous with saving the earth, oceans, and humanity as a whole.

Oli stressed the importance of global cooperation in addressing the climate crisis and claimed the global platform is for honest dialogue, knowledge sharing, and collective action in response to the growing environmental challenges that threaten all of humanity.

"The dialogue was born in the name of the highest peak, Mount Everest, to foster mutual understanding within our deeply interdependent world," PM Oli said. ...