The question is not whether there will be more climate impacts. It is how we will finance resilience, pay for damage At 17, while backpacking through Nepal and teaching English in remote Himalayan communities, I saw the impacts of climate change firsthand. Soon after, a climate lawyer took me under his wing and introduced me to the foundations of climate finance and law. Over the past decade, I have worked at the intersection of climate activism and finance. In 2016, just aft

One phone call saved thousands of lives after river gauges were swept away on 26 August Going by the numbers Nepal uses to define danger, the flood of 26 August was unremarkable. At 8:40am on 26 August, the automatic gauge on the Bhote Kosi on Nepal’s border with China recorded the water level at 1.62m. It was low, and falling. That was the last reading of the Rasuwagadi station. The wall of water coming down the Lhende Khola destroyed the equipment before the next reading w

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Failure to meet emission targets adds urgency to the next two international conferences in Egypt and UAE. As we speak, world leaders have...

In the last week of August, a monster monsoon caused floods across Pakistan, impacting over 33 million people, killing at least 1,300,...