Prime Minister Balendra Shah used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday to warn that the devastating Bhotekoshi-Trishuli floods were a glimpse of the growing climate risks facing the Himalayas. Speaking four weeks after the disaster, which he said had been likened to a “Himalayan Tsunami”, Shah described the floods as more than a national tragedy.
From flood disaster to climate warning, Shah makes the Himalayas his UN message