Nearly two months after Nepal suffered devastating floods, the UN climate convention’s Fund for Loss and Damage (FLD) has allocated $21.6 million to the Himalayan nation. This is the first time that the Fund has earmarked a grant for a disaster-affected nation. Kathmandu had invoked the principle of climate justice in its application: Nepal accounts for barely 0.1 per cent of global emissions, yet it is on the frontline of climate change in the Himalaya. The ice-and-rock avalanche that triggered flash floods in the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river systems claimed more than 1,400 lives, several villages were swept away, and the country lost at least 10 per cent of its hydropower facilities.........

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