🌍✨ Analysis: Nepal’s $20m ‘loss-and-damage’ claim only covers 0.7% of flood costs
Why we’re watching: Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close Nepal’s needs Requests vs pledges ‘Rapid response’ The Nepali government has requested $20m from the UN fund for “loss and damage”, following the devastating floods that hit the country in lat…
This amounts to just 0.7% of the $2.7bn it has estimated in “physical damage” to infrastructure and “economic losses” from the flooding, according to Carbon Brief analysis. 💚
The $20m request would, nevertheless, make Nepal the fourth-largest claimant to the UN loss-and-damage fund, which is intended to help deal with climate-related disasters.
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- 📌 Key signal: Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close Nepal’s needs Requests vs pledges ‘Rapid response’ The Nepali government has requested $20m from…
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