In the BRICS declaration, climate risk sits alongside industrial policy, energy and food security, critical minerals, supply chains, finance and trade

Ulka Kelkar on the capacity of the new Loss and Damage Fund, the gaps in international climate finance and what is needed to respond to growing climate disasters

The Nepal floods show how climate change, unstable mountain terrain and growing infrastructure exposure are combining to create increasingly complex Himalayan disasters

India can turn Nepal’s demand into an opportunity for middle-power leadership by co-underwriting resilience, pioneering localised Loss and Damage mechanisms, and investing in transboundary ecological safety

Countries have their own monitoring and warning systems, not a common one. This leaves information sharing vulnerable to geopolitical relations