KATHMANDU, Feb. 18 -- Experts during a panel discussion organized at the World Social Forum on Saturday emphasized the importance of integrating anticipatory disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) approaches with climate science to protect more lives from climatic disasters.

The event, organized in Kathmandu by Pakistan's leading think tank, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), and Pakistan's Oxfam, brought together speakers who highlighted the increasing incidence of climatic hazards and disasters, leading communities into vulnerability and causing losses and damages.

Climate justice expert Harjeet Singh, renowned globally, emphasized that temperatures play a crucial role in climate change. He cal...