After Nepal’s recent disaster, it wants to test whether COP31 can deliver climate justice

Nepal has made an emergency appeal to the UN’s loss-and-damage fund, which has yet to disburse any money. Meanwhile, families wait for relief, and the country takes on more loans to rebuild.

When Urika Tamang last spoke to her husband, he told her he would be home on October 1. A teacher at a government school in Timure, near Nepal’s border with Tibet, he had spent the last eight years living apart from his wife and son so their child could attend a school in Kathmandu.