The world's most polluting countries should accept shared responsibility and provide financial compensation to nations like Nepal for climate-driven disasters.

Nepal is demanding $20m in climate compensation for the recent devastating floods, as a senior minister called on the world’s most polluting countries to “wake up” and accept shared responsibility.

“We have contributed so little to climate change. It is imperative for those in the global community who benefit from larger, much more polluting economies, and whose historical contribution to greenhouse gases is much bigger than ours, to accept a shared responsibility. This affects all of humanity.” #Nepal #ClimateEmergency Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/08/nepal-floods-climate-compensation

"Nepal is demanding $20m in climate compensation for the floods & called on the world’s most polluting countries to accept shared responsibility for a disaster that led to the death or disappearance of > 6,000 people." This is why climate politics falls flat: it makes the rich (world) feel bad. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/08/nepal-floods-climate-compensation

Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster Nepal is demanding $20m in climate compensation for the recent devastating floods, as a senior minister called on the world’s most pollutin... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/08/nepal-floods-climate-compensation Read more at: https://UncensoredNews.US/climate-change-by-country #nepal-tibet-flood-disaster #flooding #united-nations #tibet #environment #climate-crisis #nepal #south-and-central-asia #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis