Discuss (d) the third pole

SAARC (the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, 1985 — the Kathmandu- headquartered regional family) — the environment's place in the SAARC architecture: the SAARC Environment Ministers' meetings (the 1997 Malé declaration's line); the regional conventions- and-agreements: the SAARC Food Security Reserve's climate face; the SAARC Convention on Cooperation on Environment (the 2008-10 line — the environmental cooperation's framework: the implementation's reviews; the climate-change-and-disaster cooperation's language); the disaster-cooperation convention's faces (the 2006 agreement — the region's shared catastrophes); the SAARC Development Fund's environmental window; the SAARC's climate declarations (the Delhi-Dhaka-Thimphu statements' line). The honest audit: the SAARC's structural weakness (the consensus rule; the India-Pakistan freeze's paralysis) — the environment's regional cooperation's gap (the shared rivers-and-airsheds without the shared regimes — the Himalayan-and-monsoon commons' tragedy); Nepal's role (the headquarters' host; the mountain agenda's advocate).