Climate change in Himalayas: Impacts on lives and livelihoods

Climate change is emerged as an issue of great concern for the nations around world. It affects virtually all physical, biological and human systems on this planet. However, impacts are particularly severe highly climate sensitive environments like Himalayas. The well observed in Himalayas form increasing temperature, melting glaciers, formation glacial lakes, lakes outburst floods (GLOFs) event changing biodiversity ecosystems. Often referred ‘Third Pole’ or ‘Water Tower Asia’, host largest concentration glaciers outside polar region which feed 10 giant Asian rivers. provide lifeline half a billion people mountains more than 1.3 river basins who depend directly indirectly mountain resources food, water, hydroelectricity, timber, biodiversity, niche products. critical not only because it adversely ecosystem but also could have serious repercussions people. Due to fragile ecology inaccessibility poor economic development, limited livelihood options. They heavily agriculture, livestock rearing, forest products tourism change. Thus, any adverse impact will eventually effects life livelihoods Although data about being scant, likely be experienced by them, among other things, their livelihoods, health, natural resource security. paper attempt has been made review available literature trends subsequent