The tiny country contributes less than 0.1 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions—but is experiencing the consequences of climate change firsthand.
The glacier break that led to devastating floods in Nepal last month could have been caused by a multitude of factors, some of which were fueled by climate change. This is the conclusion of the international research collective World Weather Attribution (WWA) in an analysis.
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Scientists do not directly attribute the Himalayas collapse to climate change, but identify clear signs of the contributions of global warming to the catastrophe.