{"id":3170,"date":"2026-10-23T12:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:03:51","slug":"nepal-to-get-20-million-from-climate-fund-after-deadly-august-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3170","title":{"rendered":"Nepal to get $20 million from climate fund after deadly August flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Nepal will receive $20 million in aid from the United Nations\u2019 climate loss and damage \u200bfund after the devastating flood along its \u200cborder with China\u2019s Tibet region in August, the government said late on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The August 26 flood killed about \u200b1,500 people, and more than 5,000 are \u200bstill missing<\/p>\n<p>The flood affected about 60,000 people from \u206015,000 families, according to official data, and \u200bcaused losses estimated at about $2.7 billion to infrastructure \u200b, including roads, bridges, schools and 13 hydropower plants<\/p>\n<p>Early official estimates show reconstruction bills could top $4.7 billion<\/p>\n<p>The UN climate aid accounts \u200bfor less than 1% of what Nepal \u200bneeds to cover the cost of the flood<\/p>\n<p>The support from \u200cthe \u2060Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) was to \u201chelp address the severe damage caused by climate-related disaster,\u201d the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Environment said \u200bin a \u200bstatement<\/p>\n<p>Nepal had \u2060sought the assistance in a letter to the FRLD in August, less \u200bthan a week after the flood<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister \u200bBalendra \u2060Shah, 36, in his maiden speech to the United Nations in September, said Nepal\u2019s disaster served as \u2060a \u200bwarning to the world, and \u200bhe blamed climate change for the flood despite his country\u2019s \u200bnegligible emissions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal will receive $20 million in aid from the United Nations\u2019 climate loss and damage \u200bfund after the devastating flood along its \u200cborder with China\u2019s Tibet region in August, the government said late on Thursday. The August 26 flood killed about \u200b1,500 people, and more than 5,000 are \u200bstill missing The flood affected about 60,000 people from \u206015,000 families, according to official data, and \u200bcaused losses estimated at about $2.7 billion to infrastructure \u200b, including roads, bridges, schools and 13 hydropower plants Early official estimates show reconstruction bills could top&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}