Nepal is a beautiful mountainous country having diverse ecological and geographic location from plain tropical Terai to Himalaya with fragile ecosystem. In the course of time, Nepal has been facing various global, regional, national and local environmental problems. Population growth, fragile ecosystem, unsustainable developmental activities, exploitation of natural resources and climatic change are major environmental challenges for today’s generation of Nepal. Low level of public sensitization, weak institutional capacity, lack of appropriate monitoring mechanism of environmental problem and policy loopholes are exacerbating the environmental challenge in Nepal. Considering such situations, Youth Alliance for Environment (YAE) was formed to tackle challenges through research, evidence based policy advocacy, capacity building and community mobilization for the environmental conservation and promoting sustainable development.

YAE was established in 2009 with the objective to conserve environment by mitigating existing environmental challenges from the efforts of environmental professionals. Informally it had started to work from 2009 from the Central Department of Environmental Science (CDES), Tribhuvan University and formally it was registered as YAE in Feb 2012 under the rule and regulation of Nepal government as a non-political and not for profit Non-Governmental Organization.

YAE has more than a decade long experience in environmental sectors. During the decade long professional journey of YAE has sound experiences in Water Resource Management, Forest Carbon Inventory and REDD+, Biodiversity Assessment, Forest Inventory, Forest fire management, Climate Change Adaptation and mitigation, Disaster Risk Reduction including Flood Early Warning System, Capacity Building, Research, and Policy Advocacy.

YAE is also a forum where environmentalists can bring their collective thoughts and efforts for enhancing the status of their profession and the conservation of living planet by harmonizing the relation between conservation and development.