November 17: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that the government has given special attention to the development and promotion of clean energy in order to resolve problems created by climate change.

Addressing the 20th annual general assembly of Independent Power Producers' Association Nepal on Tuesday, he laid emphasis on the need of involvement of all to lessen the impacts of climate change. Deuba added that the problem is getting worse due to bio fuel and increase in incidents of natural disaster like landslide and unseasonal rainfall.    

The prime minister was of the view that although "we have not created problems related to climate change, we have been affected by it." Therefore, he stressed on the need of developing clean energy to resolve this problem.    
PM Deuba said that the mountains are becoming bare and "we should be alert on time" as it would invite a serious crisis.    
He further said that the government would formulate a special action plan in order to promote the use of electric vehicles and induction oven.    
PM Deuba added that the government is ready to provide grants to promote clean energy and also assured to provide all types of support to resolve the problems faced by the energy sector.