newsmart – Environment

thehindu.com | 31 min. ago NEW

Nepal to receive first-ever loss and damage fund payout after devastating floods

Nepal is set to receive $21.6 million from the United Nations’ Loss and Damage Fund following the devastating Bhotekoshi floods that struck the country in August. The allocation marks the first time the global climate fund has earmarked money for a specific country to address climate-change-linked losses.

Climate experts have welcomed the decision as a landmark step, but the funding is only a fraction of the nearly $5 billion Nepal estimates it needs for recovery and reconstruction.

dailymail.com | 14 hrs. 26 min. ago

Huge 7.0-magnitude earthquake hits Tibet two months after devastating glacier flood

A massive earthquake of magnitude 7 struck Tibet today. (Preview image is of devastation in Nepal, which neighbours Tibet, following the August floods)

france24.com | 20 hrs. 15 min. ago

Dalai Lama appointed by China 'is going to be a fake one', exiled former Tibetan leader says

In an interview with FRANCE 24, exiled former Tibetan leader Lobsang Sangay said any successor to the Dalai Lama appointed by China "is going to be a fake one". He also likened Beijing's ethnic unity law to "an ethnic erasure", said Tibetan concerns had been "downgraded a bit" in US-China talks and accused China of failing to warn of the deadly August floods on the Nepal-Tibet border.