Over the last few years, Nepal’s weather has become increasingly unfamiliar to those living there. The Himalayan nation has experienced weather events that were once unheard of, including the first tornado in the country’s plains a few years ago.
All of this worries Sunil Acharya, an international climate policy and just transition specialist based in Kathmandu. It is not merely that extreme events are becoming more frequent, but that they are becoming harder to anticipate. Each new disaster seems to bring something Nepal has not dealt with before.
The latest: a glacial collapse triggering flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border, killing more than 1,200 people and leaving thousands missing.
