Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’) from China, Japan, and India are travelling to Kathmandu this week to share their expertise and support Laureate Shrikrishna Upadhyay, SAPPROS-Nepal, and all of their partners for the ‘Make Nepal Green’ initiative, according a press release issued by the Right Livelihood Award Foundation.

“All the Laureates are coming together to express solidarity [to] the cause of Green Nepal. They have their respective strengths in promoting organic agriculture, solar energy, and energy efficient building, which is relevant to the current agenda of ‘Making Nepal Green’,” the press release quoted Upadhyay as saying.

Chinese solar entrepreneur Huang Ming, who was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2011, will join Lobzang Tsultim of India’s Ladakh Ecological Development Group (RLA, 1986) and Koichi Kato, President of Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-operative Union (RLA, 1989), where

they will brainstorm with bankers, policymakers, diplomats, and civil society representatives. Outcomes of this high-level meeting will include the drafting and signing of the ‘Kathmandu Declaration’ and the creation of a ‘Make Nepal Green Fund’, added the press statement.