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Sunil Acharya retweeted
“This historical decision is a huge step forward, but it is just a pebble in the mountain of needs.”
The UN's Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage has provisionally set aside 21.6 million for Nepal after the Rasuwa disaster, marking a first while covering less than 0.5 percent of the country’s estimated $4.7 billion recovery and reconstruction needs.
By @subeksha —
kathmandupost.com/climate-en…
Sunil Acharya retweeted
UN’s decision to provisionally set aside $21.6M for🇳🇵is an unprecedented step for @FRLossandDamage, which has yet to disburse $ to any country since its establishment in 2022. But it's only the 1st step towards addressing Nepal's estimated $4.7B recovery & reconstruction needs 🧵
“Developing countries pay three times. First when disasters cause damage. Then because....they are given loans. Then....through a cycle of austerity....the money that is supposed to go to health, education is cut to repay the debt,” said Sunil Acharya
kathmandupost.com/climate-en…
Sunil Acharya of nonprofit Recourse said: “Fossil gas is bad economics; it exposes countries to volatile global markets and debt while locking public resources into costly infrastructure.”
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Sunil Acharya retweeted
विश्वमञ्चमा अनुदानमा आधारित जलवायु न्याय मागिरहेको नेपालले यसअघिदेखि नै जलवायु जोखिम घटाउने, विपत् सहने र हरित विकासका परियोजनासमेत ऋण काढेर चलाइरहेको छ।
यो कति न्यायोचित छ? +
⚡ Our two new reports from @RecourseTeam challenge how multilateral development banks finance the energy transition. They must stop backing fossil fuel dependence and help build thriving renewable economies that put people and communities first.
🧵 Here's what needs to change.
🌱 How can MDBs finance renewable energy at scale?
Our #BankingOnRenewables report sets out five strategic shifts and four operational tools to support build thriving renewable energy economies .
📗 re-course.org/newsupdates/re…
🔥 Fossil gas: a bridge to where?
Research from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Namibia and South Africa shows how gas can deepen debt, expose countries to price and foreign exchange shocks, and create stranded assets.
📕 re-course.org/newsupdates/ga…
#ClimateFinance #JustTransition
Sunil Acharya retweeted
A flood has destroyed the town of Salleri in Nepal's Gorkha district early this morning after days of heavy rainfall. This is Nepal's third devastating flood in 6 weeks, a consequence of human civilization altering the flows of water on earth by heating it up with fossil fuels.
Sunil Acharya retweeted
Ladakh: How the govt is grabbing lands of people to gift it to solar power companies.
@SafeenaWanii investigated under The Reporters' Collective @reporters_co fellowship
1/2.
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Sunil Acharya retweeted
A month after a flash flood from a mountainside and glacier collapse killed over 6,000 people in Nepal, floods and landslides have devastated the rural municipality of Chame along the Kali Gandaki river following four days of heavy rainfall throughout the country.
In my opinion piece for Al Jazeera, I argue why the conversation on compensation and liability for Loss and Damage, ruled out by wealthy countries in the Paris climate deal a decade ago, can no longer be postponed.
Read here:
aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…
#Reparations #LossandDamage
Sunil Acharya retweeted
Why has the response to Nepal’s floods been so muted?
Because wealthy nations do not want to take responsibility for their role in the current climate crisis, @sunilnpl writes in @AJEnglish.
#ClimateChange #NepalFloods2026
aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…
Sunil Acharya retweeted
Why has the response to Nepal’s floods been so muted?— #AJOpinion by Sunil Acharya.
🔗: aje.news/6jk71y
'Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis | my oped for @guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Sunil Acharya retweeted
@sunilnpl Spot on!!
"Nepal’s flash floods expose something more fundamental: the problem is not the absence of a warning system – it is a climate crisis that is producing hazards that behave differently from those the systems were designed to detect."
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
#ClumatrCrisis is 100% driven by system of production.
Why did our ruling class not invest in decarbonising faster to avoid this acceleration in deadly heatwaves that scientists warned would come? Because of the capitalist law of value.
Capital invests in what is most profitable to capital, rather than what is most necessary for humanity, so our ruling class keeps ploughing investment into fossil fuels and SUVs, while we get far too little in renewables and public transit, even while the world burns around us.
We have more than enough capacity (labour, factories, technology) to address the climate crisis, but as long as capital controls investment and production we are prevented from doing it.
We are trapped by the capitalist law of value, living in a miserable shadow of the world we could have.
Sunil Acharya retweeted
How police in Nepal misuse the law to arbitrarily detain citizens
Records show police routinely use the ‘indecent behaviour’ law to arrest individuals, often without evidence or access to legal counsel, leaving many to spend weeks in custody.
kathmandupost.com/national/2…
Sunil Acharya retweeted
I am very concerned about the threat of forced eviction looming over several thousands of residents of the Bagmati informal settlement in Kathmandu. I have expressed my concerns about this situation in the past. I renew my call for a solution that fully respects human rights.
Cath Vowels @bigshiftglobal introduces the panel and emphasizes why #cleancooking remains critical for #mission300 commitments as 1 billion African still lack clean cooking.
