Water is the largest sector disrupted by climate change. Too little or too much water, and that too at the wrong time, meaning droughts and floods, unprecedented in close history. This explains what we call a disaster, as global warming continues to change patterns. Senior Climate Change Specialist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, Nepal, Dr. Arun Bhakta Shrestha, says ‘we need to reduce emission of greenhouse gases, adapt to the grinning reality of climate change and work on an effective ‘loss and damage’ mechanism.’ Click the link to watch his exclusive talk with Tahir Dhindsa, only on SDTV, recorded on the margins of the international conference on ‘Policy Action Dialogue: Tracking Climate Change Impacts on Cryosphere, Water, Food, Security, & Risk Reduction,’ in Islamabad, jointly organized by ICIMOD and CSCCC