High in the Himalayas, a glacier that had been quietly retreating for months finally gave way, sending a wall of water through Nepal and Tibet that erased villages, killed thousands, and left a nation confronting a catastrophe it did not cause. Nepal's foreign minister has turned the wreckage into a moral argument — that a country responsible for less than a tenth of one percent of global emissions should not bear alone the cost of a warming world's consequences. The demand for $20 million in climate compensation is modest against $5 billion in damage, but its true weight is philosophical: it
Nepal demands $20m climate compensation as floods kill 6,000, blames wealthy polluters
Over 6,000 people dead or missing from glacier collapse-triggered floods; 20,000+ homes destroyed; entire villages washed away; displacement and relocation of vulnerable communities required.