MR NAKARMI

This is climate injustice in its rawest form: Picture speaks itself The so-called developed world burned carbon for generations, built wealth from it, and called it progress. Now countries like Nepal, which contributed almost nothing to the historical climate crisis, are being told to become “resilient” while glaciers melt, glacial lakes burst, homes disappear and communities pay the bill. Let us call this what it is: They took the carbon budget. They took the economic benefit. We inherited the destruction. And then climate finance is discussed as if it were generosity. It is not generosity. It is not charity. It is not a favour. Climate compensation is a debt arising from responsibility. If the so-called developed countries were willing to enjoy the benefits of carbon-intensive development, they must also be willing to pay for the damage that development helped create. You cannot privatise the prosperity and socialise the destruction. Nepal did not create this crisis. Nepal should not be forced to pay for it.