In scale and urgency, climate change is perhaps our greatest global challenge. No one will escape its effects.
Governments, corporations, scientists and peoples - all will need to act if we are to reduce the threats and effects of climate change.
As a conservation scientist, Sushma Shrestha is dedicated to combating climate change through conservation research and policy development and evaluation.
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