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Nepal’s Loss and Damage Claim After the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli Disaster: A Timely Decision, Yet Structural Gaps Remain
On August 26, 2026, a massive rock-ice avalanche in Nepal’s Rasuwagadhi border region, large enough to register a seismic signal equivalent to a magnitude 5.2 earthquake, triggered an extreme debris torrent that cascaded more than 150 kilometers down the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli…
Financing Pakistan’s Climate Adaptation Initiatives
Pakistan’s devastating 2022 floods unambiguously elucidate the stark realities of climate change. The event indicates an existential danger that demands immediate and earnest policy attention. Pakistan’s climate crisis has metamorphosed into a distinctive security challenge—one that deviates from conventional security…
Bangladesh is Forging Ahead with a Green Foreign Policy
Bangladesh is considered one of the most vulnerable countries to climate-induced risks and ranks seventh among the extreme disaster risk-prone countries. The Climate Risk Index 2021 states that climate change has caused grave humanitarian losses with casualties counted at 11,450…
South Asia Must Proactively Prepare to Face Climate Change
Unprecedented floods in Pakistan in recent months, caused by a mix of record rainfall and melting glaciers, left a third of the country submerged under water and affected nearly 33 million people. The floods have also caused widespread destruction, with…