Nepal has requested $5 billion in financial assistance from the United Nations' special fund for climate-disaster recovery to cover the cost of recovery following recent floods. ^[1] Maheshwar Dhakal, the climate change chief in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forest and Environment, explicitly asserted that human-caused climate change was a factor in the recent glacial collapse and flooding. ^[2] The United Nations' loss-and-damage fund has received pledges totaling $820 million and has acknowledged a significant financing gap for requests totaling $2.8 billion from at least 119 countries. ^[3] The United States withdrew from the UN loss-and-damage fund under President Donald Trump after having pledged $17.5 million under President Joe Biden. ^[4] Maheshwar Dhakal described the situation as a profound inequity where decades of greenhouse gas emissions by wealthy countries harm vulnerable nations that cannot cope with the consequences. ^[5] The United States, historically the largest global emitter of greenhouse gases, had promised $17.5 million to the fund during the presidency of Joe Biden but subsequently withdrew after Donald Trump returned to power. ^[6]