Nepal has experienced catastrophic flooding and is bravely struggling with the consequences.Although Nepal contributes much less than 0.1% of global emissions compared to developing countries, such as China and India, Nepal's trivial addition to emissions does not exempt her from disproportionate devastation [1].Nepal's natural and human resources are vulnerable to global heating through erratic rainfall, floods, landslides, and glacial lake outburst risks.All these have disrupted rural livelihoods, water availability, and agriculture across the country [2].Nepaland everyone elsehad received ample warnings of this catastrophe.The April 2024 Birendra Lake outburst in Manaslu region, was started by a small ice-avalanche.This showed that the melting Himalaya can threaten downstream settlements and infrastructure [3].The August 2024 Glacier Lake Outburst Flooding (GLOF) devastated Thame village in Khumbu region [4].
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