Environment ministers from eight countries that border the Himalaya were all set to gather in Kathmandu in April for a rare meeting to discuss data sharing, and cooperation in mitigating the impact of the climate crisis and threats to biodiversity.

Some of these countries are not exactly friends: there is tension on the mountainous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and violent clashes erupted recently between India with Pakistan and China. Rival claims to Himalayan territory even affected Nepal-India relations.  

That these countries had even agreed to meet under the auspices of the Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) was remarkable. However, the conference was cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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