Three weeks after a glacier collapse sent walls of water through Nepal's river valleys, erasing entire villages and leaving more than five thousand people unaccounted for, a nation of modest means confronts a reconstruction bill of $4.8 billion — a debt born not of its own making. Nepal, responsible for less than a tenth of a percent of global emissions, now enters the long work of rebuilding while preparing to ask the world's most powerful nations a question that has no comfortable answer: who is responsible for the cost of a warming they drove and others must survive?
Nepal shifts to recovery after devastating floods, faces $4.8B bill and climate justice push
At least 1,386 confirmed deaths with 5,130 missing; entire settlements destroyed; families displaced and unable to perform funeral rites; 900 workers trapped in hydropower facilities.