Is air pollution a challenge for climate change in mountainous country Nepal?

Connectivity between pollution and climate change has been justified by the researchers. Different types of air pollutants are increasing air pollution, damaging ecosystem and challenging for climate change. Mainly industrialized and growing economies are blamed for deteriorating environment caused by pollution. Economically weak and developing countries like Nepal are bearing high cost of such air pollution led climate change. Nepal lies in the top 10 highly polluted country in the world and recently it is facing growing causality caused by climate change. Identifying the nature and type of air pollution could help Nepal to minimize adverse impact of climate change as well as demand for climate fund with regional pollutant countries. In this context, this study aims to expose the possible climate risk created by internal and external led air pollution in Nepal based on the review of past research papers. Available secondary data have also been used for analyzing challenge created by air pollution for climate change in Nepal. The study found the influence of transport of regional air pollutants, mobility and forest fire as a challenge for climate change in Nepal.