Project Atmospheric Brown Cloud (ABC) has a network of over a dozen climate observatories strategically located across Asia and the Pacific and equipped with sophisticated state-of-the-art instruments to measure radiation, aerosol, precipitation chemistry, and meteorology. There are two fully functional ABC climate observatories in Nepal: the Nepal Climate Observatory at Godavari (NCO-G), maintained by ICIMOD, and the Nepal Climate Observatory at the Pyramid (NCO-P) in the Khumbu Valley near Mt. Everest operated by an Italian Team from the Ev-K2-CNR Committee.

The workshop provided information about the ongoing ABC activities in Nepal and other regions along with other national and regional initiatives; and the impact of ABC to mitigate its adverse consequences on climate, precipitation and hydrological cycle, agricultural productivity and human health.