This study aims to investigate the influencing factors and the processes for incorporating climate change mitigation actions into policies in the non-environment sector in Nepal. We use semi-structured interviews with policy actors such as national and sub-national policymakers, and respondents from the private sector and international development organizations active in Nepal. We also use thematic, narrative, and focused coding to analyze narrative data obtained from 12 respondents, and qualitative analysis of textual data from six non-environment sector policies to generate insights into the mainstreaming of climate change mitigation actions. A major finding from the study is that global environment-related initiatives like the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals, and the green growth concept that aims to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, are influencing the policy discourse in Nepal. Consequently, climate change mitigation actions are integrated either as add-ons or as overriding policy objectives in non-environment sector policies. Our conceptualization of mainstreaming moves beyond the mere integration of policy objectives to focus on the collaborative practices of policy actors, the influencing factors, and the processes for incorporating climate change mitigation actions across non-environment sector policies.

本研究旨在调查将减缓气候变化行动纳入尼泊尔非环境部门政策的影响因素和过程。我们对政策参与者（例如国家和次国家政策制定者）​​以及活跃在尼泊尔的私营部门和国际发展组织的受访者进行半结构化访谈。我们还使用主题、叙述和重点编码来分析从 12 位受访者那里获得的叙述数据，并对来自六项非环境部门政策的文本数据进行定性分析，以深入了解减缓气候变化行动的主流化。该研究的一个主要发现是，与《巴黎协定》和可持续发展目标等全球环境相关的举措，以及旨在减少温室气体 (GHG) 排放的绿色增长概念，正在影响尼泊尔的政策讨论。因此，减缓气候变化行动被整合为非环境部门政策的附加或压倒一切的政策目标。我们对主流化的概念化超越了政策目标的单纯整合，而是关注政策参与者的合作实践、影响因素以及将减缓气候变化行动纳入非环境部门政策的过程。