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The Economic Times
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Safi A Rizvi

Nepal’s flood disaster is bigger than the climate blame game

The devastating catastrophè in Nepal will remain etched in our memories forever. Yet, life beyond the disaster is upon us.

Nepal’s foreign minister was quoted in Kathmandu Post stating that the country was paying the price of climate change, which it did not contribute to, and that a formal policy shift “from aid to justice and compensation” was underway. He ranked China, the US and India as “main industrial emitters” that “have a historical responsibility to compensate vulnerable nations like Nepal”.

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