Paudel in Baku stresses ‘polluter pays’ principle for climate justice

While Nepal is right to raise climate finance issues, loss and damage at global stages, policy makers should also focus on providing relief to affected populations at home, experts say.

At the ongoing COP-29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Nepali delegation is set to highlight several extreme weather events that the country has suffered recently—the destruction caused by the glacial lake outburst in Thame village of Solukhumbu district and last month’s devastation from monsoon-triggered floods, landslides and inundation, among others.