Nepal floods pose biggest test yet for UN climate loss and damage fund

Evidence is mounting that global warming contributed to Nepal’s devastating flood on 26 August, when a glacier collapse killed more than 1,400 people and left some 6,000 missing after villages were wiped out. A rapid science review last week linked higher-than-average July and August temperatures to destabilizing an already geologically vulnerable region, framing the disaster as a major test for the UN climate loss and damage fund.