Nepali Prime Minister Balendra Shah told the UN General Assembly on September 24-25 that August's catastrophic floods that killed at least 1,450 people served as "a warning to the world" about accelerating climate risks in the Himalayas. He called for urgent global action on climate change.
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Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah said on Thursday that last month’s catastrophic floods were a “warning to the world” of growing climate risks in the Himalayas. He said warming was melting glaciers and permafrost and urged international support to help Nepal adapt to threats it could not face alone.
Nepali Prime Minister Balendra Shah told the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 24 that the deadly August floods were “a warning to the world.” At least 1,450 people died in the disaster, which affected Nepal and China’s Tibet region. Reports said a high-altitude glacier collapse near the border triggered the floods, and scientists linked climate-driven permafrost melt to the glacier’s instability [rt