Nepal's cabinet meet at highest altitude
Madhav Kumar Nepal, the PM of Nepal, along with all the 21 members of his cabinet assembled at Kalapathar and signed a document aimed at drawing global attention on climate change ahead of Copenhagen Summit.
GOVERNMENT OF Nepal held a meeting of its cabinet at an altitude of 5,250 metres on a place called Kalapathar, ie black rock in order to draw global attention of world community on the gravity of climatic change. Similar cabinet meeting was held by Maldivian Government in the month of October 2009, when the entire cabinet of Mohammad Nasheed held meeting under the ocean. It was first such attempt and exercise to draw international attention. Many people called it as a gimmick and wastage of public money. The ongoing media hype owing to ensuing Copenhagen summit has come as business opportunity for many and arranging such trips by private agencies are being seen as a publicity stunts and nothing more than that. Nonetheless, the media hype and environmentalists repeated warnings on climate change and global warming have helped awareness towards climate change permeate into the minds and heats of common people also, who hitherto were least informed and less concerned about all such problems.
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