Climate Emergency: Nepal Disaster Is ‘Showing Us the Future’
Between 15,000 and 20,000 people were directly affected as remote valleys still await aid and rescue teams search hydroelectric dam tunnels.
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Nepal’s catastrophic floods must be a wake-up call on climate action as death toll passes 1,000
The catastrophic floods in Nepal are a stark warning of what a hotter world will mean for communities on the climate frontline and why governments and donors must invest now in climate resilience, adaptation and disaster preparedness, rather than waiting for the next disaster to strike, Oxfam has warned.A week after the devastating floods, rescuers are still scrambling to reach people cut off by destroyed roads, bridges and landslides. Oxfam and…
Climate emergency: Nepal disaster is ‘showing us the future’
The shocking scenes of catastrophic glacial floods and landslides in Nepal and Tibet should be an international climate wakeup call, says Indra Raj Bhattarai. Bhattarai, who spoke to Green Left's Peter Boyle from Kathmandu, is a social justice and human rights advocate and conservation educator and researcher.
We are paying for the climate crisis with lives and homes. The Nepal-Tibet floods must spark action
"This is an injustice. We did not start the climate emergency that has engulfed us. We cannot continue to pay for it with our lives, our homes, and our hopes," writes Nepali climate justice activist Shreya K.C.
The flood on the border between Nepal and Tibet demonstrates the centrality that the region must have in global climate policies. And the need for a sharing of data and alert systems Read
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