Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala said on Sunday that the Nepali participants' foremost concern in the global summit on climate change due to kick off in Copenhagen on Monday will be to draw the world's attention towards the looming catastrophe that Nepal may have to face due to the adverse impact of climate change on the Himalayas.

Issuing a press release on the eve of the Copenhagen Summit, the former prime minister said the climate change and its manifold adverse impacts on the harmonious relations between humans and nature have now become quite obvious.

And, he expressed happiness over the gathering of world leaders in the Danish capital to discuss the impacts of climate change.

He mentioned that the Nepali Prime Minister is leading the Nepali delegation, and a group of 10 Sherpa mountaineers and Mt. Qomolangma summiteers are participating in the summit.

Stating that countries' natural resources, ecological balance and economic prosperity are closely interlinked, the NC leader said land erosion and climate change are issues that have direct bearings upon the political stability and progress of a country.

"Similarly, given the symbolic relations between peace and development, ecological life of the Himalayas cannot be delinked from the present-day political context," he said.

He stressed on the need for the combination of efforts -- social, economical -- to restore ecological balance and promoting environmental protection in the mountain regions.

(Xinhua News Agency December 7, 2009)